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Inspector, Salt, Abkari and Customs Department, Circle, 



upon the terms and conditions hereinafter contained witnesseth as 

 follows : — 



(i) The officer for the time being in charge of the Salt Depart- 

 ment at fish-curing yard will from time to time supply 

 the boat-owner with such amount of salt as the boat-owner may 

 require on any trip for the purpose of every fishing trip taken by such 

 boat-owner for which salt the boat-owner shall duly execute a proper 

 receipt in the form laid down from time to time by the Deputy Com- 

 missioner, Salt, Abkari and Customs Department, Division. 



(2) The boat-owner undertakes to use the salt so supplied to 

 him for the sole purpose of curing fish whilst at sea and not for any 

 otner purposes, 



(3) The boat-owner shall bring all fish so cured at sea together 

 with the balance of any salt that may not have been used for curing 

 during any trip immediately on return of the said boat to land and 

 direct to the fish-curing yard at for weighment. 



(4) The unused salt shall be weighed and taken over by officers 

 appointed for such purpose by the Secretary of State. 



(5) The boat-owner shall pay for all salt issued to him for 

 curing fish at the rate in force for the time being at the said fish- 

 curing yard. 



(6) The amount of salt used for curing fish shall be taken at 

 the rate of maunds of salt for maunds of salted 

 fish and this proportion is subject to revision. In case of any 

 deficiency between the n mount of salt originally issued and the 

 amount returned exceeding 10 per cent, of what the amount of 

 deficiency should be calculated at the rate aforesaid the boat-owner 

 shall forthwith pay the Government of Madras for the deficiency in 

 excess over such 10 per cent, the difference between the cost and duty 

 value of salt in force for the time being at the said port, and the issue 

 price of salt. 



(7) The Secretary of State and his officers and servants shall 

 at all times have full power and liberty to examine the said boat and 

 nets before leaving for and on return from the fishing grounds. 



(8) In case of breach of condition 2 hereof or in any case of 

 fraud as to which the decision of the Deputy Commissioner of Salt, 

 Abkari and Customs Department, Division, shall be 

 final the boat-owner shall pay double the duty for the time being 

 leviable on the quantity of salt issued. 



And this indenture also witnesseth that in consideration of 

 the premises the boat-owner doth hereby assign to the Secretary of 

 State his successors and assigns the boat and nets respectively referred 

 to in the said schedule by way of as security for the payment of any 

 amount for which the boat-owner may be or become at any time or 

 times hereafter liable to pay to the Secretary of State under the con- 

 ditions hereinbefore mentioned and that if default shall be made in 

 the payment of any such sums so payable by the boat-owner the 

 Secretary of State or any officer of his duly authorized in this behalf 

 shall be entitled to sell the said boat and nets or any portion thereof 

 and apply the proceeds thereof towards the payment of moneys due 

 to the Secretary of State hereunder and the surplus if any shall be 

 handed over to the boat-owner. 



