'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1909-1910' [‎150r] (31/148)

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1 8 per cent, while the collections increased by about 41 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees or 10
y ear ^ the improyement being most noticeable in the Central and Southern
P® r C . n g 4 In Sind, however, the demand was 6 J Ukhs and the collection 47
P lhs below the figures of the preceding year. The aggregate collections
l ted to nearly 96 per cent, of the total demand, the arrears being 18f
compared with 25f lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in 1908-1909. Arrears were highest in the
l:lk j pivision (41 per cent, of the total arrears) and lowest in the Southern
pivision (H «**•)•
45 , The receipts of the Bombay Custom House stiow a decline of over sea Customs
i lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees on the figures of the preceding year, which, however, was an abnormal Bom W»
^ a • The decline was in Import Duties which represent about 93 per cent.
Tthe total receipts. The export receipts which are derived from the duty on
0 an( j nee-flour exported to foreign countries increased by over 18 per cent.
owhi 0, to the favourable season and to the large demand for rice at Zanzibar
and ia Persia. The percentage of expenditure on net collections. rose from
3.3 te 4'1* alterations in the Tariff rates have resulted in a large
^crease in the value of goods bonded at the public warehouse. The value
has risen from 12 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to 91 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees and the duty leviable from 4| to over
16 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . The increase is due to the bonding of silver to the value of
71 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees since the duty was raised from 5 per cent, ad valor am to 4 annas per
4est. Greater activity in the scrutiny of importations resulted in an increase
of about 62 per cent, in the number of cases adjudicated under the Sea Customs
Act,
The net receipts after deducting refunds and drawbacks fell by 5 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees or Karachi and
over 8 per cent, due to a decline of over 6 lAkhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in the receipts under Import Smd Poits -
Duty. There was a rise in the receipts under Export Duty.
The reduction in imports of machinery, hardware, salted fish and cocoanuts, Land Custom
and the preference given to cheap Rangoon rice shipped direct from Bombay
to Goa caused a decline of 25 per cent, in the duty levied on the Portuguese
frontiers. The increase of 8 per cent, on the Kathidwar frontier is attributed
to the brisk railway traffic following on the re-opening of the marriage season
among Hindus.
46. The restrictions placed by Government on the exports of opium to Opium.
China resulted in a decrease of 7,500 chests or 36 per cent, in the amount
exported from Bombay. This limitation in the supply of Indian Opium was
followed by an extraordinary rise in prices in the China Market in the last
three months of the year. The actual imports into Bombay of opium on which
duty at the rates prescribed for exportation by sea was realised decreased by
over 70 per cent, in quantity and the duty realised fell from 210 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . The reasons for this extraordinary decline are ( 1 ) that in the
previous year in order to secure the right of priority of export, duty was paid
iu advance on almost all the permissible exports for the years 1909 and 1910;
and ( 2 ) that, owing to the decision to introduce from 1912 the system of
assigning the right of export to the highest tenderer, duty amounting to 32 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
paid on chests which do not come within the exports limits of 1910 and 3 911,
wa9 ^funded with the concession of the right of export of a similar number of
Crests after 1911 on payment of special duty •
^ ^7. There was a small increase in the total removals of Baragra salt p res ^ enc y
( 0 Uri ng the year, but the popularity of this salt in the Central Provinces and Proper.
^tral India (including Malwa and Rajputana) was indicated by a consider-
p ^ ! acr ease in the removals to those provinces. The issues to the United
Evinces which were a marked feature of the preceding year, show &