'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1904-1905' [‎162v] (100/116)

BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
Chap. V.
FINANCIAL
REVIEW.
Expenditure.
General.
Import duty and
fees.
Bombay Opium
Warehouse
accounts.
Exports to China
and prices.
Opium transactions
of the Baroda
State,
Total Imperial
revenue and
expenditure.
General sources
of supply.
76
13( %
duty on sugar. During the year Rs. 23,354 as against Rs. 72,257 in 1903-1904
drawbacks, chiefly on account of sugar and seeds. Export duties realised
against Rs. 1,52,959 last year. Net Provincial receipts amounted to Rs. 15 082 8)917
Imperial to Rs. 40,59,486.
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The expenditure of the department increased from Rs. 1, 0 56,538 to Rs. 1,68 06.3
2. Land Customs.
The number of duty-collecting stations on the Goa and Daman frontiers
unchanged. On the K4thi4war frontier two stationsjvere closed, five new stations opened
re Nn{,
i ‘iiii
a cordon of new preventive posts placed round, the Dhandhuka Taluka. The receiuf
Portuguese frontier were Rs. 1,27,718 as against Rs. 1,17,367, and on the Kathid.J' Y* 1 ^
Rs. 79,693 as against Rs. 5,925. The increase in the receipts on the first named b r
chiefly due to larger importations of salted fish from Goa. Receipts on the Kathiaw/? 161
for the whole year 1904-1905, while in 1903-1904 they were for three months onlv u ? 1
A fine. f i o frvf.allprl T?.a Q cmd T?c< AfiCftnl
are
and expenditure on this frontier totalled Rs. 79,693 and Rs. 33,508 respectively A* n r '
Q 0«Q 1 Q1 11 r\y\ o /All m ’WTd't'C* -t rvi -ixr\r»4'Z}rl act r*/~Y>n Z-r* 4- O C o ^ ^ ^ ^3St|j
Rock 3,069,181 gallons of Petroleum were imported as against 2,584,251 gallons
previous year
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8. Opium.
For details see the Annual Report on Opium for 1904-1905 and tables under IV— Opium-
Financial and Commercial Statistics of British India.
1. This summary deals with opium only so far as it relates to opium as an it
Imperial Revenue. Information regarding opium as an item of excise will be found unM?
head of excise. The principal changes during the year were (1) the enhancement by & *
with effect from 7th May 1904, in the rate of duty on opium imported into the Bombay Pi
dency for exportation by sea, (2) the opening of a new sub-opium Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Baran in I
Kotah State on 20th June 1904.
2. The duty-paid exports from the several scales to Bombay for exportation and for U
consumption declined from 27.237^ chests to 20,420^ chests, a decrease of 6,817 chests All
agencies showed decreases except Chitor, Jaora and Ahmedabad. The imports at the AhmedaW
scales consisted wholly of Baroda grown opium intended for subsequent export to Cliina
The actual imports of opium on which duty at rates prescribed for exportation by sea was realid'
were 18,844 chests against 25,974J chests in the preceding year, a decrease of 7,1301 chests ui
the actual duty realised was Rs. 1,12,36,878 against Rs. 1,30,70,750, in the previous year a
decrease of Rs. 18,33,875, due to decreased exports to China. Transhipment and re-exportai
fees on opium brought to Bombay, Karachi, and Aden for re-export to Hongkong and other pcits
were Rs. 20,281 as against Rs. 24,572. In quantity there was a decrease of 1,16Oi chests.
<M 3 *ooT h V ear °I )erie ^ with a balance of 1,442 chests and imports during the year amounted
to ^0,5332 chests. Of these 18,986 chests were exported to China, 13 chests to African
ports, J99 s chests were sold for consumption in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. and 640 chests were supplied
the Madras Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. . The balance found in stock on 31st March 1905 was 1,272| eta,
eie was a deficiency of 14| chests owing to the drying of the new opium which made up a
large share of the imports.
ci :p x I )01 ^ s by 6,354 chests, due mainly to the high prices ruling in Bombay,ail
toe probable congestion of the China market, depletion of stocks, the rise in the price of silver,
an ^ ncieas ® 0 •^' s * 199 per chest in the duty. The average prices of opium in the Bombay
mai i! R’nug e year under report were Rs. 1,480 per chest for one year old, and Es. 1,^
per chest for two years old opium against Rs. 1,223 and Rs. 1,332 per chest for one year ail
two years old opium, respectively, in the previous year.
,, ; 5, T , he , a 0 rt : a , UIld f poppy in the Baroda State was 12.272 acres against 18,398 actesi
j p ^ ar . ^ ai \^ an avera ge of 6,317 acres during the three years ending 1901-02. Tfe
„ • enn ^ U scan ty rainfall. During the year under report 1,124| chests*
thoLi f« the P 1 ' evl0us y^r were exported from Bombay. The stocks of Baroda op»
at the end of the year were 90,449 lbs. as against 167,236 lbs - , at the end of the previousy»
the nre^ifin!. Im P erial Avenue from opium was Rs. 1,12.73,283, against Rs. 1,31,15,*'
9. Salt-
Salt-app'nhldtothVr^
Bard ' Saif B A mba / A residene y Salt Department has to deal with three kinds of salt:
Runn fiB 1 manufactured at the Pritchard Salt Works at Khdraghoda and Uda on
Portuouese India. P1 ° UCet a WOlks 011 the coast ’ (“') imported .salt, produced main]
rfhebi
a
*•55“
Trar
bdfM 1
3, Theq
5 861,688 man
Dhmsna, um
^61-3maund
there was aniiK
ind tlie closing
au increase of 1,
within and will
of nominal duty
increase m issu
at other sea salt
4. Theqr
267,281 mannd
Goa, and partly
of the salt impo
Bombay throng.
an average of 1
Gujaflt was K
rest of the Pres
The average mr
as against Es.
the whole of G
Prices are still
The Deccan disi
, Thetc
18 almost entire!
stocks by tbe c
diture increaset
7. Tbe i
cured rose fr (
ffiaundstoBS,!
Tbe financial 5
1 - 26 9.' Orto
acr oss the frou
on Daman
two
years ago.
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year f 0r
t 0 ' Ue
^ the
a sum
previous
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