1 REVIEW BY SECTIONS.
2 FALODI.
3 Stocks and issues,
4 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
5 (2) Sales from this stock to be effected through the
6 agency of the Darbar, and allsalt so sold to be
7 debited against the quantity of duty-free salt deli-
8 verable under Article XII of the Jodhpur Treaty.
9 (3) The cost price of salt thus sold to be paid to this
10 Department at therate of one and-a-half annas a
11 British maund.
12 (4) Accounts of sales to be furnished six-monthly by the
13 Darbar, and the necessary adjustment in connection
14 with the payment to this Department of the price
15 of salt sold, to be made six-monthly at either the
16 Sambhar, Pachbadra, or Didwana Treasury.
17 (5) Should excesses over the registered stock occur in
18 any of the heaps of salt now existing, the cost
19 price of the salt composing such excesses to be
20 paid to this Department, at the rate of one and-a-
21 half annas a British maund, and the manufacturers
22 tobe paid by the Darbar, on account furnished
23 by this Department, the value to them of such
24 excess salt at the rate of one annaand three pies
25 a British maund, this Department being debited
26 with such payments to manufacturers,
27 The Government of India sanctioned these proposals in
28 Finance and Commerce Department letter No. 30858.R., dated
29 16th of July 1897, and the Darbar having acceded to the terms,
30 the saltin stock at Falodi was delivered toan authorized Raj
31 official and the establishment was withdrawn from the Source,
32 with effect from the 1st October 1897.
33 Statistical information for the first six months of the year,
34 during which the salt at the Source remained in the charge of
35 this Department is submitted below.
36 Stock Account.
37 Mads.
38 Balance of stock on 1st April 1897 eee wes oo» 90,336
39 Sales during the six months oo ee oe we =: 8,635
40 Balance of stock on 30th September 1897 »». ws ev 86,701
41 Receipts and charges,
42 Receipts—
43 Rs.
44 Sale price of 8,635 maunds of salt at 3 annas a maund ... wee 682
45 Miscellaneous items of revenue oon si at 16
46 Total, receipts oe 698
47 Charges—
48 ° Res.
49 Salaries of Establishment} = as ae we «777
50 Contingent expenditure ae a ove we 238
51 Total, charges 1,015
52 Rs,
53 Loss on transaction of the half year see vee awe «3817
54 The quantity of salt made over to the Darbar on the Ist,
55 of October 1897 was maunds 86,701, the balance which I have
56 shown was in hand when departmental transactions closed on
57 the 30th of September 1897.
58 The Darbar have informed me that the sales effected by
59 the Raj officials during the half year which ended on the 31st
60 of March 1898, amounted to maunds 4,284, leaving a balance
61 of maunds 82,417 of registered stock in hand. The value,
62 Rupees 401-10-0, of the salt sold by the Darbar, at the rate
63 of one and-a-half annas a British maund, was duly paid into
64 the Pachbadra Treasury during May 1898.
65 ( 56 )