‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [‎311r] (169/192)

1919 - 1920 .]
SALT—EXCISE.
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Chapter V.
FINANCIAL.
9 . The concession of issuing denaturalised salt for manure purposes was
renewed in May 1919. The concession which was restricted to four coast
districts was recently extended to the rest of 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. proper. The
aggregate quantity of refined magnesium chloride and epsom salt removed bv
the Pioneer Magnesia works at Kharaghoda fell from 39,027 to 30 700 owt«
and the royalty recovered from Rs. 58,541 to Rs. 46,050. ’
Miscellaneous.
2.—Sind.
1 . The sources of supply during the year were (i) the Maurypur salt-sources of *
works (ii) the Saran salt deposit and (in) the Darwari deposit.
2 . Imports of table and rock salt by private agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. amounted to 1 409 P ro( iuction and
and 72,429 maunds against 1,324 and 47,193 maunds, respectively, m/the^'
previous year. The subjoined statement contrasts the total production loss
wastage, removals and balances of salt in stock in Indian maunds at the ’close
of the past two years :—
Year.
Stock in
hand at
the com
mencement
of the year.
Made or
excavated
during
the year.
Other
receipts.
Sold
during
the year.
Issued to
H. H. the
Mir of
Khairpur.
Other
issues.
Loss and
wastage
at depots.
Stock in
hand at
the close
of the year.
1918-19 ...
146,968
1 , 424,862
394,112
815,054
21,700
378,634
8,397
702,157
1919-20 ...
702,157
726,882
318,687
460,245
18,600
325,187
108,365
835,329
During the year under report 693,682 maunds of salt were manufactured
at the Maurypur salt-works against 859,728 maunds in 1918-19 and the
quantities excavated at the Saran and Darwari salt deposits amounted to
32,000 and 1,200 maunds as against 57,534 and 507,600 maunds, respectively,
in the preceding year. The decrease of 49 per cent, in the outturn of salt was
due to ( 1 ) discontinuance of extraction at the Darwari deposit and ( 2 ) the
curtailment of manufacture at the Maurypur salt works.
3. Of the total quantity of salt produced locally or imported by private c o nsum ptk>n an( j
agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. from Europe and the Punjab 489,798 Indian maunds were consumed prices '
during the year under report, the average rate of consumption per head during
the year being 11*47 lbs. as against 11*77 lbs. in the previous year. The
average wholesale price of salt in the province was Rs. 2 - 6-9 per maund
as against Rs. 2-8-8.
4. There was no curing of fish at Shamspir during the year, the operations Fish-curing yards,
having been transferred to the “ Khada ” at Karachi, where duty-paid salt is
used.
5. The gross receipts from excise duty and other sources amounted to Revenue and
Bs. 7,36,614 against Rs. 7,18,679. From these figures receipts from duty on expsndlture *
salt imported by sea and land have been excluded, this year for the first time.
Expenditure amounted to Rs. 3,41,444 as against Rs. 3,31,176. The percentages
of charges to gross receipts was 46*3 as against 46*1.
6 . The number of offences against the salt laws detected was 34 as offences *
a gamst 43 in the preceding year.
3.—Aden.
Receipts rose from Rs. 34,857 to Rs. 52,375 and expenditure from Rs. 2,214
Jjo Rs. 2 5 248. Thus the net revenue increased from Rs. 32,643 to Rs. 50,127.
the total quantity removed from Arab salt-pans rose from 19,763 to 68,270
JRaunds. The quantity exported from Lalji’s salt-works rose from 27,736J to
9 5 478J tons and from the Italian salt-works from 82,193 to 105,171 tons.
7.—Excise.
Por ^ e , ta ^ s see the Reports on the Administration of the Excise Department in the Bombay 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. , Sind and
en, for the year 1919-20 and tables under Excise printed in Part IV of the Statistics of British India.
1.—Presidency Proper.
E The principal sources of excise revenue 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. are taxation General.
u P or i (a) the manufacture and sale of country spirit and Indian-made liquors