1 Deputation of officers
2 to inspect salt works
3 and alt tracts in
4 Native States.
5 RAJPUTANA
6 SALT SOURCES:
7 (1)
8 SAMBHAR.
9 Sales and issues.
10 Appendix II,
11 Territorial distribution
12 of the salt ig: ued.
13 Appendix VI,
14 € REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
15 The quantity of salt issued free of both price and duty
16 was larger than in 1tgo0-o1 by maunds 8,150. A running
17 account is kept with the Darbars of the transactions in this
18 free salt, and any balance that may be due is issued on
19 application.
20 The issue of salt on which half the duty is refunded to
21 the Bikaner Darbar was short of the full quantity due under
22 the salt agreement by maunds 458 only, and Rs. 27,452
23 were paid by way of refund. The Darbar expressed a wish
24 during the year to receive this treaty salt on payment of half
25 duty atthe salt sources in place of a refund of duty on
26 salt booked to the State. This proposal has been acceded
27 to, and the arrangement will come into force from the 1st of
28 October 1902, In addition to the salt on which only half
29 duty is payable, the Darbar manufactures, under the terms of
30 its treaty,a maximum quantity of 30,000 maunds a year at the
31 small salt source of Lonkaran Sar for consumption within
32 the State. This source was visited by a Superintendent of
33 the Department during the year, and the procedure followed.
34 by the State officials appeared to be satisfactory. The
35 arrangements of the Darbar with regard to their salt seem ta
36 be all that can be desired, and enquiry in the Punjab along
37 the border of the State showed that no salt from Lonkaran
38 Sar enters British territory.
39 10. The salt works and salt tracts in the States of Mewar,
40 Shahpura, Bikaner, Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Kishengarh,
41 Kotah, Tonk, Datia and Sampthar were inspected at the
42 beginning of the year by offcers specially deputed for the
43 purpose, in order to ascertain whether the treaty obligations
44 were being observed. Apart of the Jaipur State was also
45 visited.
46 In Mewar the arrangements of the Darbar for the sup-
47 pression of salt manufacture on lands which are the property
48 of the State appeared to be good, but the production of salt
49 on aconsiderable scale was found to be carried on in the
50 estates of some Jagirdars—notably in that of Banera. In the
51 Kotah State also the manufacture of salt was found to be
52 practised to some extent. These cases of infraction of
53 treaty obligations were brought to the notice of the Political
54 Officers concerned. Elsewhere the conditions of the salt
55 agreements were found to be observed fairly well.
56 Arrangements were made towards the close of the year
57 to depute officers to the Gwalior, Jaipur, Mewar and
58 Shahpura States, and the result of these deputations wiil be
59 noticed in the Report for 1902-03.
60 ti, There wasa decrease of maunds 4,76,982 in the sales.
61 of salt at the Sambhar Lake during the year, maunds
62 31,52,207 having been disposed of, as compared with maunds
63 36,29,189 in 1go0-01. The difference in the quantity of salt
64 removed from the lake was, however, small, vzz., maunds
65 32,58,033 against maunds 33,26,518 in the previous year, or
66 a decrease of maunds 68,485 only. The stock of salt was
67 sufficient to meet the demand in full, but its quantity was
68 inferior, and traders limited their purchases to actual require-
69 ments.
70 12. The figures of distribution of salt, which was remove!
71 to areas of consumption, show that there was an increase of
72 maunds 50,000 in the quantity consigned to the Punjab
73 {maunds 2,37,200 as compared with maunds 1,87,200 in
74 1900-0!) and of maunds 200‘in the quantity sent to the
75 ( 4)