The Statistical Reporter. A Monthly Journal of Statistical Enquiries Concerning India

On the 28th October 1868 the Government of India submitted for the approval of the Secretary of State proposals for a modification of the present salt duties involving an increase in the duties now levied in Madras and Bombay ; upon the grounds however that in the regions over which the lower rate of duty at present prevails the consumption* of the duty-paid salt is nearly double that which t [...] The successful termination of these negotiations places in the hands of the British Government the whole of the inexhaustible salt supplies of the Sambhur Lake and will at the same time give two wealthy and influential Native States a direct interest in the peace and well-being of a vast number Of British subjects.' The full advantage of these arrangements will not be gained until the railway c [...] " When the Railways through Rajpootana mid to the Salt Alines of the.Punjab are completed ; when we obtain the benefit of the great development of the supply of salt from the Sambhur lathe to which we are now looking forward and for which we have to thank the enlightened policy of our on'ble colleague in this Council His Highness the Maharajah of Jeypore ; when the loeal manufacture of salt in [...] VII of 1861 (to empower the Governor General in Council to increase the rate of duty leviable on Salt manufactured in or imported into any part of the Prsidency of Bombay) section two the price to be paid to the Local Government for Salt manufactured and sold under the orders of the Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. [...] Whereas it is expedient to provide rules for the manufacture storing and sale of alimentary salt in the territories for the time being respectively under the Governments of the Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William and of the Punjab and the Administrations of the Chief Commissioners of Oudh and the Central Provinces Asd whereas it is also expedient