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Order of the Government of Madras, No. 1083, 

 Revenue, dated 30TH October 1906. 



■ In paragraphs 15, 27, 28 and 29 of his letter No. 26, 

 dated 5th February 1906, Sir Frederick Nicholson made 

 the following suggestions with the object of promoting 

 the development of the tish-curing industry : — 



(i) that duty-free salt should be allowed to be 

 taken to sea in hshing boats for curing purposes ; 



(2) that the hours during which night work is 

 allowed in fish-curing yards be extended ; 



(3) that facilities should be provided for curers cleans- 

 ing their salt fish in the sea at or near curing yards ; and 



(4) that the issue price of salt in the yards of the 

 Malabar district should be reduced to As. 10 a maund. 



2. These suggestions having been referred to the 

 Board of Revenue for remarks, the Board recommends 

 that the first and second concessions may be granted 

 subject to certain conditions and that, as regards the 

 third proposal, the matter should be left to the discretion 

 of local officers on the understanding that the practice 

 will be permitted wherever it can be done with safety. 

 In reference to the fourth proposal, the Board points 

 out that the grant of the concession would involve a 

 considerable loss of revenue. 



3. The Government approve of the Board's recom- 

 mendations in regard to the first three concessions 

 subject to the following remarks : — 



{a) Concession No. (i). — The Government con- 

 sider with reference to condition 4 of the conditions 

 suggested by the Board that the difference between the 

 issue price and the cost and duty value of the salt should 

 not be recovered except when the deficiency exceeds 

 10 per cent, of the quantity originally issued. 



[b) Concession iVo. (2). — The Government do not 

 consider that overtime fees need be paid or collected in 

 a ivance. 



* 4, As regards concession No. (4), the Government 

 are of opinion that though there may be some immediate 

 loss of revenue, there is a fair prospect of this being 

 made good before long by the increase in the issues of 

 salt which may be expected to result from the reduction 

 in the price of the salt used for curing. They accord- 

 ingly sanction the reduction of the price to As. 10 a 

 maund as recommended by Sir Frederick Nicholson. 



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