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2 206. The increase under A. VI. only keeps pace with extended work ; and
3 if all divisions maintain proper record of their planting
4 Plantation, (A- VI) works, this yearly expenditure may yet be increased with
5 great advantage, and it will be reproductive Certainly
6 as regards cost, our planting works are as economical as any other part of the
7 work would be desired to be.
8 297. The expenditure on surveys and demarcation is
9 Surveys, &.,(A- VIZ) fully justified by the works done in Hazara, Kalatop and
10 elsow here.
11 298, That on A.X.,—Communications,—is also fully justified. I believe the
12 Communications, general excellence of the roads made, and houses erected
13 (A-—X ) by the Officers of this Department, is one of the best
14 features of this work, While much remains to be done in communications and
15 a good dealin boundary pillars, the completion of works provided for in tho
16 Budget of 1872-73 will see this province in a satisfactory state of advance. We
17 have already decent rest-houses in Kiil4, Pangi, Barmaor, Tira, the Lower
18 Ravi, (Madhopir), Jhelam, Lower Chenab, (Wazirabad), and the Fatlej, besides
19 in some of the largcr plantations, while the Divisions of Kili Bias, Lower
20 Ravi, Upper Chenab and Satlej, are beginning to be fairly well off for com-
21 munications, and others are making progress.
22 299. Lstablishments —The increase is duc to promotions and to the in-
23 B (Rstabliehments, &,) creased sanction for establisliments, as well as the cost of
24 incresto by new sanctions establishments belonging to the newly-transferred tracts,
25 eee Contingencies have increased of late years unavoidably
26 owing to the number of new offices, to the great extensions of the Conservator's
27 Office, his Office of Account, with its array of books, &c.
28 300. The contractors’ outstanding account is large, but is due to the non-
29 settlement with the contractor for the pine fellings; he
30 Pes tae el Con- has done a considerable part of the works, and therefore
31 part of the advances still shown as Outstanding have been
32 virtually recovered, the settlement of the balance is in progress ‘The remain-
33 Somo of them ovurely ing outstandings are swelled by purely nominal outstand-
34 nomial and since adjusted =ings on the Jlclam, which have since been adjusted.
35 301. The total expenditure under A and B is Rs. 7,085,329 but, to this
36 must be added Rs. 4,825, refund of Revenue not shown under A and Bb. The
37 total income under the 9 heads of receipts is Rs. 7,385,008, but to this must be
38 added the recoveries as Cash Receipts Rs. 9.270, Refund of Revenue Rs. 349,
39 and recoveries from contractors in excess of this year’s advances, Rs. 3,39 4, which
40 makes the total income 7,48,016. This gives a cash surplus of Rs. 37,862, while
41 large stores of material realizable, but not realized, were in hand.
42 302. The total stock consists of 8,50,790 cubic feet of all sorts, and is
43 ee a valued at Hs. 5,95,524. Besides this, also the ‘transit
44 en mere stock’* shows assets in transit to value of Rs. 2,52,000
45 hitherto unnoticed.
46 803. And then I have to call attention to some very important considera-
47 Connderations affecting tions In the first place, we have realized our net revenue
48 Cash Revenue. of 29,674 Rupecs under a system by which we are compel-
49 Compulsory sale to Btate Jed to supply the State Railway ata loss; thus during the
50 baa les a One pent cur year 364,618 cubic feet of timber were supplicd at an
51 proper revenue. average cost for all lengths of Re. 0-14-5 for deodar, and ans.
52 7-3 for pines, a price which no merchant could possibly supply it at on any but
53 ona very small scale; this timber I could have readily disposed of at a price from
54 Re. 1 to Rs. 1-2 for deodar to other parties, so that we have lost nearly Rs 58,000
55 by our year's sale.
56 « Orders having beon sssuod to the Indus Valley Railway to take the wood.