'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR, 1910-1911' [‎223r] (29/150)

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44 . The enhancement of certain import duties and the general development Sea Customs
of trade were followed by a marked expansion of the customs revenue. The gross Eomba y-
receipts of the Bombay Custom House rose by as much as 63 per cent, to a
total of 3 crores 59 Idkhs. Collections on account of import duties represent
9 g- 9 per cent, of the whole revenue. Export duties levied on rice and rice-flour
were influenced by an increase in the shipments made direct from Calcutta, Rangoon
and Karachi to the ports of destination, and the revenue under this head^ fell
from 2f to less than 2 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . Owing to increased collections the ratio of
expenditure to net receipts was 2'5 per cent, compared with 4*1 per cent, in the
previous year. Alterations in tariff had led to the bonding of a very large quantity
of silver in the year 1909-1910. Much of this was subsequently cleared, with the
result that the total value of bonded goods shows a decrease in the year under
review from 91 to 32 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees , while the value of clearances rose in the aggregate
from 8 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to 79J lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees .
The net receipts amounted to 72 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees , a figure 30 per cent, above that of Karachi and
the previous year. The increase appears entirely in import duties, which realized Sind PortSi
a gross revenue of 71 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees .
The fishing season, on the Goanese coast was unfavourable and caused a Land Customs
falling off in the imports of salted fish from Portuguese territory. Exports of rice
to Goa from the districts above ghats also decreased, and there was a consequent
decline of 7 per cent, in customs receipts on this frontier. On the Kathiawar
customs line increased passenger traffic by railway and an improved system of
valuation for certain goods produced a considerable rise in revenue.
45. Although the imports into Bombay of dutiable opium from the various Opium,
scales weie slightly larger than in the previous year, the number of chests on
which duty was actually paid during the year fell from 13,917 to 1,40^. The
decrease is accounted for by the discontinuance of advance payments of duty.
Such payments were previously made in order to secure priority of export to
China, and they came to an end when the priority system was abandoned. The
actual shipments of opium to China in the revenue year 1910-1911 amounted to
6,710J-chests, or scarcely more than half those of the previous year. This was
partly because under the regulation restricting exports to 12,100 chests the
comparatively large shipments in the early months of 1910 left only a small
margin for export in the later months, and partly because shipments in 1911
were limited at first omng to the large stocks in China and the uncertainty
prevailing in the trade. The increased price of Malwa opium in the Chinese
market was reflected in a rise of 16 per cent, in the average price quoted for
one year old opium in Bombay and a rise of 40 per cent, in the price of two-
year old opium.
2 ] / t^' ^ r ° SS rece T^ s th 0 Salt department amounted to nearly 1 crore Equivalent to ten million, or one hundred lakhs. Used especially in connection with money (rupees). Salt:
3a hs. Compared with the previous year there is a decrease of 3 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees , which 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.
ue in the main to prepayment of duty in 1909-1910 on salt actually removed proper *
- the works in 1910-1911. Removals of Baragra salt amounted in each year
2 )2 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of maunds. No important fluctuations occurred in the year under
^ iew in the quantities exported to other provinces, while within 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.
^ r e was a general increase in the consumption of this salt, to which Kaira, the
with R ^ n ^ la Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and Bombay furnish the only exceptions. The year closed
°f St0C ^ 5 Idkhs of maunds at the Pritchard Salt works. The output
cror 6 Sea Sa ^ W0r ^ s i ncrease d by 3^-per cent, and fell short by only one lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of a
J maun d s - Issues to foreign Malabar increased by nearly a lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees and
is ^ ^ a ^ cutta by 23,000 maunds. The rise in demand in foreign Malabar
P ro ably accounted for by the increased use of salt for industrial and