1 GENERAL REVIEW.
2 Details of issues of salt
3 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
4 5. Details of the issues during the past two years of salt
5 free of duty and free following table :—
6 of price and duty.
7 free of duty and free of both price and duty, are given in the
8 oe ‘ Jodhpur...
9 Salt free of duty. | Salt free of price and duty.
10 .
11 5 Amount | Tssues, Amount Isues.
12 pis to which Source from icy to which
13 bier a State is which issued. be d State is 1
14 "| entitled. 1893-94, coe ee. | entitled. 1898-94. 1189495,
15 Mas. Mads. Mads. Mds, Mds, Mds.
16 43,408’ 43,408 fj Alwar aw. 1,000 tte 2,000
17 2,25,000 1,45,000 1,42,500 Bhartpur...| 1,000} |, 2,000
18 15,000 10,799 Dholpur ... 300) 300) 800
19 i Jeypur ... 7,000} 14,000 7,000
20 2,083,408 1,96,707] Sambhar ... 4 | Kerowli ... bul. 100
21 | | Kishengarh 50 50 50
22 6,000' 5,000! 10,000, . |) Kotah~ ,., 300]... 300
23 || Lawa | 10 109) 10
24 (i Jodhpur ,., 14,000) 12,250, 15,750
25 | Jodhpur... | 10,000 30,000! 10,000
26 Pachbadra ai Udeypar... | 1,000] 1.000} 1,000
27 2,31,000 2,08,108) 2,06,707} 34,710] 37,610] 38,510
28 |
29 The Darbar of Jodhpur in Rajputdna and of Rémpur in
30 Rohilkhand are the only two which receive salt free of duty, but
31 for which the price is charged. The Rampur Darbar is entitled
32 to an annual allowance of maunds 6,000 and received maunds
33 10,000 during the year, the difference between the two quanti-
34 ties being due to salt for both 1894 and 1895 having been
35 issued during the year under report. The Jodhpur Darbar is
36 entitled by the terms of the salt agreement to receive annually
37 maunds 2,25,000 of salt free of duty. It actually drew waunds
38 1,96,707 in 1894-95, viz., from Pachbadra mauncs 1,42,500,
39 from Didwana maunds 43,408 ; and from Falodi maunds 10,799.
40 The State godowns and the bazirs were well-supplicd, and
41 the price of salt remained at its proper rate throughout the
42 year. One unimportant instance was detected during the year
43 of salt issued from Didwana free of British duty to the Jodhpur
44 Darbar having been taken across the border for sale in a neigh-
45 bouring Native State. The case was brought to light by one of
46 the officers of this department while on deputation enquiring into
47 the proper observance of the salt agreement and the suppres-
48 sion of earth salt manufacture. The offenders have been finec’
49 and imprisoned by the Jodhpur Darbar.
50 The total annual issue of salt, free both of price and duty,
51 authorized by the salt agreement, is maunds 34,710, The
52 actual quantity issued is maunds 38,510, the issue of maunds
53 3,800 in excess of the annual grant being thus accounted for :—
54 The Alwar and Bhartpur Dafbars took in 1893-94 none of the
55 salt thus allowed to them, and consequently each received in
56 1894-95 the arrears of 1,000 maunds due tu it. The same was
57 the case with the Kerowli Darbar, which received the arrears
58 of 50 maunds due for 1893-94. In 1893-94 the Jodhpur Darbar
59 only drew maunds 12,250 out of the total amount of 14,000
60 maunds of salt it is entitled to receive free of price and duty,
61 and in the year just ended the arrears, maunds 1,750, were
62 drawn.
63 No half-duty salt is now issued, as explained in previous
64 reports ; the Bikanir Darbar was the only one entitled to receive
65 (4)