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Chap- V.
financial
review.
Expenditure.
Refunds and
drawbacks.
Bonding
transactions.
Customs offences.
Revenue,
Refunds and
drawbacks.
Expenditure,
Offences.
General,
Exports from
scales to Bombay.
Exports to China,
Prices.
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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
tl9o 9-l9 l0t
2 The total expenditure increased to Rs. 8 , 86,501 from 8,60,570 and the penw
ipenditure on net collections was 4'1 compared with 3 85 in the previous year. “4*
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of ex r ~
3. Refund of import duties decreased from Rs. 1,21,100 toRs. 1,20,272.
goods exported to Kashmir came to Rs. 14,470. Drawback refunds
Rs. 3,86,537 to Rs. 2,59,867 chiefly under Silver Bullion and Com.
4. The value of goods bonded at the public warehouse was Rs. 91 15,217 on which dm
amounting to Rs. 16,32,162 was leviable. T he corresponding figures last year
Rs. 12,70 445 and Rs. 4,68,442. The increase is due to recent alterations m the tariff
and silver imports contribute Rs. 71,17,078 to the total value of goods bonded.
5. The number of cases adjudicated under the Sea Customs Act was 1,588 a?ai
last year. Of the total number of cases, 585 appertained to offences under the MerchaJ
Marks Act. Fines and penalties imposed amounted to Rs. Id,875.
Continental Torts.
The customs receipts were Rs. 1,27,252, a decrease of Rs. 10,179. The number of easoa
adjudicated was 516 against 548 last year, and the penalties levied were Rs. 1,752 again”
Rs. 1,882.
Torts in Sind.
1. The net receipts after deducting refunds and drawbacks were Rs. 56,11,188 against
Rs. 61,19,544. Gross receipts under Import Duty showed a decrease of Rs. 6,10,338; g rosg
receipts under Export Duty increased by Rs. 3(5,041.
2. Refunds to the Kashmir Darbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). amounted to Rs. 67,596, but this figure i s not
complete. Drawbacks amounted to Rs. 81,922.
3. Total expenditure amounted to Rs. 2,25,323 against Rs. 2,10,390 last year.
4. The total number of eases dealt with under the Merchandise Marks Act was 193, a
decline of 31 cases. The fines imposed amount to Rs. 1,172 against Rs. 946 last year.
Under the Sea Customs Act there were 405 offences, and the fines realised came to Rs. 4,982.
2.—Land Customs.
The number of duty collecting stations on the Kathiawar and Portuguese frontiers
remained unchanged. Customs receipts on the Portuguese frontier decreased from Rs. 1,37,292
to Rs. 1,02,460, a decrease due partly to less imports of machinery, hardware, fish and cocoanuts,
and partly to less exports of rice to Goa owing to large exports of Rangoon rice from Bombay
to Goa. On the Kathiawar frontier the receipts rose from Rs. 78,643 to Rs. 85,046, owing
to the fixing of tariff values for stone and timber and the re-opening of the Hindu marriage-
season. Imports of petroleum at Castle Rock increased from 2,879,429 gallons last year to
3,190,180 gallons in the year under report. The quantity of rice and paddy exported to Goa
free of duty vid Diggi and Kundal Customs Houses was 17,128 maunds on which Rs. 3,212
in duty was foregone. Under the Land Customs Act 813 cases were adjudicated against 8/5
in the previous year.
8 Opium.
For details see tbe Annual Report of the Opium Department for the year 1909-1910 and tables under Opium printed m
Part IV (5) of the Statistics of British India.
1. This information relates to the Imperial Branch of the Opium Department. As a
subject of local excise it will be found dealt with under that head.
2. The duty-paid exports to Bombay for exportation and for home consumption we ! <j
13,917 chests compared with 34,419 chests in the previous year. The decrease is distributed
over all the Agencies except the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of Ajmere which exported 20 chests against nil m
the previous 3 years. The actual imports into Bombay of opium on which duty at the rates
prescribed for exportation by sea was realized were 7,759| chests against 27,858 chests m ^
previous year and the actual duty realized was Rs. 74,94,800 against Rs. 2,09,81,700. ^
cause of decrease was that last year almost the whole of the permissible exports for 19(jy
1910 had duty paid on them to secure priority of export and also that 82 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees were paw
refunds.
&. Exports to China amounted to 13,191^ chests, a decrease of 7,503 chests, due
restrictions limiting the annual exports.
4. Average prices in the Bombay market were Rs. 1,346 per chest for one-year old
Rs. 1,648 per chest for two-year old opium against Rs. 1,186 and Rs. 1,305 respectively
y® ar ; dA ie rise was due to increased price in the China market. During the last thiee ^
oi tne year prices rose rapidly. In March 1910 prices rose to Rs. 2,263 for new
opium and Rs. 3,229 for old opium.