1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 SAMBHAR.
3 Receipts, charges and net
4 revenue.
5 Decrease in gross realiza-
6 tions and net revenue
7 explained.
8 Jncrease in fixed charges
9 explained,
10 Variations in contingent
11 charges explained.
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14 REPORT ON THE ADMJNISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
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16 32. The following statement shows the gross realizations,
17 the fixed and contingent charges, excluding treaty payments, and
18 the net revenue of the Sambhar Division for the year under
19 report and the three preceding years :—
20 Gxoss realizations. Charges,
21 Year. | Excise * . }
22 Sale | Miscella- : Contin- Net
23 sk a price. | neous. Total. Fixed. gent. Total. | sevenue.
24 “Rs. | Rs | Bs | Re | Rs. Rs. | Re. Rs.
25 1890-91 .,.] 1,06,93,090} 9,738,533] 30,617] 1,16,97,240] 1,15,713| 2,45,325) 3,61,034) 1,13,36,202
26 1891-92 ,..| 1,14,07,281| 7,79,322| 39,689! 1,22,25,292) 1,24,296] 240,302] 3,64,6s8! 1,18,60 604
27 1892-03 ...] 1,27,61,504] 8,52,991) 47,507) 1,36,62,092) 1,11,584, 96,680 2,08,204) 1,34,53,828
28 1893-94 ...| 69.75,353} 9,53,3951 24,174 79,582,922) 1,14, 462! 1,66,735] 2,845,197 76,067,725
29 Owing to the failure of manufacture in 1892-93 from the
30 flooded state of the lake and rainy weather unfavourable for
31 the manufacture of salt in almost every month of that year,
32 and the consequent exhaustion of stocks, the selling price of
33 Sambhar salt was raised from 2? annas to 54 annas on the 7th
34 of July 1893, and again to 8 annas a maund on the 7th of
35 September 1893, with the object of checking the demand. The
36 result of this measure was that the amount of salt sold fell off
37 . by maunds 23,14,460, that is, from maunds 51,09,601 in 1892-93
38 to maunds 27,95,141 in 1893-94, or 45°29 per cent. The gross
39 realizations, therefore, only amount to Rs. 79,52,922, and are
40 Rs. 57,09,170 less than in 1892-93. The falling off in excise
41 duty amounts to Rs. 57,86,151. In sale price realizations
42 there is an increase of Rs. 1,00,404, because, though so much
43 less salt was sold, for maunds 4,95,980 five and-a-half annas
44 a maund and for maunds 11,81,642 eight annas a maund were
45 realized; whereas a uniform price of 2? annas a maund was
46 charged in the previous year. The miscellaneous realizations
47 of the year are less than those of its predecessor, because the
48 through-traffic sales fell from maunds 30,27,807 to maunds
49 15,32,362. The net revenue for the year was less than in 1892-
50 93 by Rs. 57,86,103, The percentage of charges on revenue
51 increased from 1°52 in 1892-93 to 3°59 last year,
52 The fixed charges of the year are more than in the one
53 preceding it by Rs. 6,878, out of which exchange compensa-
54 tion allowance accounts for Rs. 2,220, The remainder of the
55 increase is chiefly due (1) to periodical increments of the sala-
56 ries of Superintendents falling due, and (2) to a larger number
57 of officers being employed in the division during the later
58 months of the year to assist in the manufacture and storage of
59 salt, every effort having been made when manufacture was
60 resumed to replenish the amount of salt in store. The tem-
61 porary establishment sanctioned to assist in protecting salt in
62 the lake and in store during the dry months of the year cost less
63 than in 1892-93 hy Rs. 2,250.
64 The contingent charges of the year and the preceding
65 year Classified under main heads are compared in the following
66 abstract :—
67 Item. | Sub-head of contingent charges, 1892-93, 1898-94. |Inerease.} Decrease.
68 ; Rs, Rs. Rs, Rs.
69 1 {| Manufacture ae See. 52,336 1,36,748 | 84,413 a
70 2 Travelling allowance of officers, 1,902 2,099 197 ee
71 establishment, conveyance of
72 tents and records, postage, hot
73 weather and stationery charges.
74 3 | Petty construction and repairs ... 8,859 8,509 ia 350
75 4} Through-traffic charges <ec 25,176 15,780 9,396
76 5 | Other miscellaneous charges “sae 8,407 3,599 eae 4,808
77 Total 1,66,735 | 84,609 14,554
78 96,680
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