1 . REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
2 , Excluding treaty payments the percentage of charges
3 on receipts amounted to 5°88 as compared with 4°86 in the
4 previous year.
5 Treaty payments, 3. The treaty payments of the year amounted to
6 Appendix LV. Rs. 30,22,292. Deducting Rs. 2,25,350 as not fairly debit-
7 able to the salt revenue for the reason given in the first para-
8 graph of the Annual Report for 1898-99, a balance of
9 Rs. 27,96,942 remains. Maunds 43,58,291 of salt were issued
10 by this Department to the United Provinces of Agra and
11 Oudh, the Central Provinces, Central India and Rajputana,
12 ‘and maunds 26,96,991 by the Bombay Salt Department to
13 the same areas. On the basis of these issues Rs. 10,69,174
14 of the balance of Rs. 27,969,942 are debitable to the Bombay
15 Salt Department, and Rs 17,27,768 to this Department.
16 Adding this last sum to the charges of the Department, the
17 incidence of charges on receipts amounts to 14°89 per cent.
18 as compared with 13°18 per cent. in 1900-01.
19 Adjustment of the ac 4. A comparison of the accounts of the Department for
20 counts of the Departs 1900-01 with those of the Comptroller of India Treasuries
21 the Comptroller of as disclosed no discrepancies, but they differ in respect of
22 India Treasuries. two items from the Finance and Revenue Accounts of the
23 Government of India. This Department has been credited in
24 the latter with an item of Rs. 3,383-1-3 on account of salt
25 revenue realised in British Baluchistan, and debited with a
26 sum of Rs. 170 paid at Calcutta to the Second Member of
27 the Board of Revenue of the Madras Presidency.
28 Strength of the estab: 5. There wasno change during the year in the sanctioned
29 lishment. strength of the Department, which comprised, besides the
30 Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, seven Assistant
31 Commissioners, 29 Superintendents, 7 Assistant Superintend-
32 ents (excluding Probationers), 91 Inspectors, 125 clerks, 197
33 petty officers and 1,533 peons. There were 3 Inspectors, 6
34 clerks, 17 petty officers and 91 peons in excess of scale at
35 the commencement of the year, but by its close the Inspec-
36 tors and clerks, 8 petty officers and 35 peons had been provided
37 for in vacancies, leaving only 9 petty officers and 54 peons ta
38 be absorbed.
39 On the retirement of the Hospital Assistant at Sambhar
40 an Assistant Surgeon was appointed to the medical charge
41 of thelake. This completed the revision of the medical staff
42 sanctioned by the Government of India.
43 Towards the end of the year Mr. Dane proposed a
44 further reduction of establishment, and a revision of the grad-
45 ing of the Upper Division of clerks. The sanction of the
46 Government of India to these proposals was received after the
47 year closed, and the changes will be commented upon in the
48 Report for 1902-03.
49 Deputation of officers 6. Two Superintendéents—Messrs. Jeffery-Orchard and
50 eemenee aay: Winn-—were deputed in February 1902 for famine duty in Raj-
51 putana,
52 Training of officers at 9. Mr. G. W.C. Lisle, Superintendent in charge of the
53 the Roorkee College. Warcha Salt Mine in the czs-Indus and Kalabagh Mines
54 Division, was deputed to the Thomason Civil Engineering Col-
55 lege at Roorkee for instruction in levelling and surveying, and
56 obtained a certificate of proficiency in the course prescribed
57 at the College.
58 It is satisfactory to note that the Mayo and Warcha Salt
59 Mines, where mining is carried on in accordance with scientific
60 principles, are now in charge of officers who have been specially
61 trained in levelling and surveying at Roorkee.
62 a,