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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
Chap. V*
IbU BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
FINANCIAL
REVIEW.
Revenue.
Expenditure.
Receipts and
expenditure.
Revenue and
expenditure.
Heads of receipt.
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The shop-keepers have the option of supplying themselves with liquor either from the ]{
distillery, or, on paying equivalent rates, from any distillery outside of the Province qu*
new system met with much opposition on its first introduction from the farmers and' fk
interested in the maintenance of that which it superseded ;• and a combination was f ^
to excite discontent with the new order of things by maintaining the price of liquor a ^ rrne ^
which consumers would scarcely be able to pay. This design was frustrated hi k 8
importations of cheap mowra spirit from Uran in the Presidency proper, a liquor
appears likely to supersede in popular favour the inferior and dearer spirit 1 0 q
manufactured from molasses. The failure discouraged the opposition, which in the ^
under report entirely ceased ; and the new system has every prospect of success. ^ ear
The principal sources of abkari revenue in Sind as elsewhere are fees on licenses f
the sale of ( 1 ) foreign liquor, ( 2 ) toddy, and (3) country liquor, still-head duty on cou t-
liquor, and the auction prices of the right to sell intoxicating drugs other than on’ ^
A small miscellaneous revenue is derived from sales of confiscated articles and the like
The gross revenue under all the above heads for the several districts of the Provi
during the year under report as compared with the previous year was as follows: UCe
District.
V
1887-88.*
1838-89.
Increase.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Karachi
Hyderabad
Shikarpur
Thar and Parkar ...
Upper Sind Frontier
...
• * f • • • • •.
2,00,166
1,47,112
1,23,434
5,746
27,839
2,37,630
1,94,255
1,29,409
9,260
30,177
37,464
47,143
5,975
3,514
2,338
Total . .
5,04,297
6,00,731
96,434
* The figures in this column do not tally with those shown in the report for 1887-88 owing to the exclusion from the latter of sm™
items now included. SlUme
In all districts the increase was principally under the head of country liquor and was due
to the introduction of the new system above described. The sale of toddy, which is
confined to the Karachi District, also gave enhanced receipts. The number of licenses
issued for the sale of foreign liquor was 58, as compared with 78 in the preceding year.
In the towns of Karachi, Hyderabad, Shikarpur, Sukkur and Rohri licenses for the whole’
sale and retail sale of country liquor were issued at a rate of Rs. 250 for first class shops
and at rates declining by fifties for shops of the second and third classes. In other towns
and in rural tracts the rates varied from Rs. 200 to Rs. 25. The maximum selling price
of spirit manufactured at the Kotri distillery was Rs. 6-12 per imperial gallon. The
incidence of abkari taxation per head of population was 4 annas.
The expenditure of the department during the year under review was Rs. 10,222
against Rs. 11,428 in 1887-88.
Aden.
The gross abkari receipts at Aden from duty on spirits, license fees, gdnja, &c., amounted
to Rs. 77,598 in the year under review, showing a decrease of Rs. 8,267 (chiefly on duty
on foreign spirits and warehouse rent) as compared with the receipts of 1887-88. The
expenditure was Rs. 6,079 as compared with Rs. 5,961 in the previous year.
The aggregate receipts in 1888^89 under the Indian Stamp Act and the Court Fees
Act amounted to Rs. 49,99,393, against Rs. 48,91,044 in 1887-88, an increase of Rs. 1,08,349
or 2-2 per cent. The receipts under the Stamp Act were Rs. 23,12,7.30 and under the Court
Fees Act Rs. 26,86,663. Under the former Act there was an increase of Rs. 1,17,982 and
under the latter a decrease of Rs. 9,632.
The expenditure under the Stamp Act amounted to Rs. 1,06,455, or Rs. 351 more than
in the previous year, and the expenditure under the Court Fees Act to Rs. 1 , 24,018 or
Rs. 8,680 less, than in the previous year. The expenditure in both cases was equivalent to
4 ’6 per cent, in the receipts.
Under the head of foreign bill stamps Rs. 75,521 were realized—an increase of
Rs. 6,609 over the receipts of the previous year. Under India revenue stamps Rs. U9,U
were realized a decrease of Rs. 4,068. Under share transfer stamps Rs. 41,097 were
realized—an increase of Rs. 1,502. Under bills of exchange and hundis Rs. 2,66,916 were
realized—an increase of Rs. 20,077. Under general stamps Rs. 17,01,923 were realized-an
increase of Rs. 99,351. Under court-fee stamps Rs. 26,79,346 were realized—a decrease
of Rs. 9,471. The miscellaneous receipts amounted to Rs. 28,717 against Rs. 36,232 ^ tlie
preceding year.