1 Salt trade with Thibet
2 and Nepal across the
3 frontier of the United
4 Provinces,
5 Consumption of salt per
6 head in Provinces to
7 which salt is supplied
8 by the Department.
9 Appendix XIV.
10 KEPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
11 concession held by Messrs. Schréder Smidt and Company,
12 Hide Merchants of Cawnpore and Dinapur, of a rebate of duty
13 on salt used for salting hides and skins at those places was
14 withdrawn during the year. The concession had not been
15 taken advantage of at Cawnpore for three years and at Dinapur
16 for five years, and the firm offered no objection to the with-
17 drawal of the concession. Under the sanction of the Govern-
18 ment of India, conveyed in letter No. 3678-S.R., dated the 4th
19 July 1902, from the Finance Department to the Government of
20 the United Provinces, Messrs. D. Waldie and Company,
21 . Chemical Manufacturers, were granted, as an experimental
22 measure and as a temporary concession that may be revoked
23 at any time without compensation, a concession of arebaté of
24 duty on salt used in the manufacture of hydrochloric acid in
25 their factory at Cawnpore. The agreement relating to the con-
26 cession was executed onthe 13th September 1902, and the
27 concession was allowed with effect from the 1st October 1goz.
28 The sum of Rs. 300, to be paid yearly to cover the cost of
29 supervision by officers of the Department and other incidental
30 expenses, was deposited on the 4th June 1903 ; anda sum of
31 Rs. 536-8-0 on account of maunds 214-24 of salt used between
32 the 1st October 1902 and the 31st March 1903 has been
33 refunded to the Company.
34 47. The imports of Thibetan salt across the frontier of the
35 United Provinces into the hill districts of Garhwal and Kumaon
36 were larger than in 1901-02 by maunds 8,697, the quantity
37 registered being maunds 43,123 against maunds 34,426.
38 Exports to Nepal of salt which had paid duty amounted
39 to maunds 89,969 against maunds 1,07,573, the trade having
40 fallen off by maunds 17,604 during the year. The exports
41 comprised maunds 1,385 of rock salt from the c7zs-Indus
42 Mines, maunds 32,506 of Sambhar salt, maunds 1,473 of the
43 salt of the Sultanpur Salt Works and maunds 54,605 of other
44 kinds. The greater part of this last quantity was salt from
45 Calcutta, but a small portion of it was Baragara salt from the
46 Bombay Presidency.
47 78. The figures given below containas accurate an esti-
48 mate as possible of the consumption per:head of the population
49 of the Provinces supplied with salt by this Department. °
50 In accordance with the orders issued by the Government
51 of India on the Report for 1899-1900, the averages for three
52 years as well as the averages for the year under report have
53 been shown. Figures for each of the four years from 1898-99
54 to 1901-02 have also been added for purposes of comparison.
55 The calculation for the first two of these four years was made
56 on the statistics of population of the Census of 1891 :—
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62 2 22 £./2.122
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76 The Punjab and North-West Frontier | 1111] o'00 | 7°01
77 Province, ¢vans-ladus,
78 The Punjab and North-West Frontier 750 | 793} 728) 7441 7°48
79 Province, cis-Indus, and Kashmir.
80 United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 4. 734) 723 | 734) 764) 7°48
81 Province of Behar in Bengal ne 876 | 889 | S'o1 | 8:09 | 8-39
82 Central Provinces and Berar ons 10°84 | 10°26 | 14°85 | 1°09 | rr15
83 Rajputana sve bt tae oe 684 | 649 | 702] 700} 715
84 Central India... aes fae 705 | 794) B50} 786] S12