PETROLEUM 



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appended. Dangerous petroleum is defined as petroleum having a flash- ""* 

 point below 76 F., but a consignment guaranteed uniform is not to be ' 

 considered dangerous if it has an average flash-point of 73 and no 

 sample flashes below 70 F. 



Revenue. In 1888 an import duty of half an anna a gallon was levied Revenue. 

 liy the Government of India on petroleum, and in 1899-9*' 

 obtained amounted to Rs. 1,62,392. In 1894-5 this tax was .lo.il,!,- 

 part of the means adopted to reduce the large deficit which then existed. 

 The revenue from petroleum in that vear was Rs. 3,17,995. Si: 

 the i;i\ has remained at 1 anna per gallon, and the revenue thu 1 on* AM* pc 



tluriiu: the five years 1900-6 amounted to the following figures : 1900-1, <J ' toL 



,29,432; 1901-2, Rs. 53,05,104 ; 1902-3, Rs. 53,79,857 ; 1903-4, 

 Rs. 43,99,912 ; 1904-5, Rs. 45,88,289 ; 1905-6, Rs. 36,64,723 (^ . 



TRADE. Internal. The movements within I mlia itself are inst nut ive. Trade- 

 Thus the total recorded EXPORTS of internal trade transactions by Internal. 

 rail and river in 1904-5 amounted to 4,366,522 cwt. ; in 1905-6, 4,4.". iui 



cwt. ; and in 1906-7, 6,194,699 cwt. Of that amount Bengal exported l " T-r 



.587 cwt. ; Bombay port, 1,531,394 cwt. ; Madras ports, 98: V 

 cwt. The chief IMPORTING provinces were Eastern Bengal and Assam, 

 1,294,710 cwt. ; Madras, 892,290 cwt. ; United Provinces, 851,:', 

 Bombay, 678,944, cwt. ; Calcutta, 642,135 cwt. ; Central Provinces and 

 Berar, 587,547 cwt. The total coastwise transactions may be represented 

 by the following quotations : IMPORTS, 1901-2, 17,187,223 gallons, valued 

 at Rs. 70,97,587 ; in 1903-4, 40,469,364 gallons, valued at Rs. 1,6: 

 and in 1906-7, 66,065,365 gallons, valued at Rs. 2,40,54,01 1. Of EXP( > 

 Burma supplied in 1906-7, 58,572,648 gallons, and Bengal, 1,231 

 gallons. Of that supply Bengal took 33,074,834 gallons ; Bombay, 

 9,226,720 gallons; Sind, 2,428,796 gallons; and Madras, 8,896.":.".' 

 gallons. But in addition to Indian petroleum, foreign oil is carried along 

 the coast. In 1901-2 this came to 6,069,534 gallons, and by 1906-7 had 

 decreased to 2,304,032 gallons, the major portion being from Bombay to 

 Madras, Kathiawar and Goa. 



The Trans-frontier export trade in petroleum shows in recent years uyLmdRouiw. 

 a steady increase. In 1904-5 the figures were 160,559 cwt., valued at 

 Rs. 10,65,506; 1905-6, 180,748 cwt., valued at Rs. 11,15,212 ; 1906-7, 

 178,533 cwt., valued at Rs. 11,81,921. The largest quantities goto Nepal, 

 viz., in 1906-7, 100,938 cwt., while considerable quantities are also conveyed 

 to the Shan States and Kashmir. The imports during the same period are 

 unimportant, amounting in 1906-7 to only 66 cwt. 



External (Foreign} Exports. The foreign EXPORT trade in petroleum External 

 has sprung into eminence within the last two or three years. The Exports, 

 following are the exports of kerosene and paraffin wax for the period Export* ot 

 1900-7 : 1900-1, 258,752 gallons kerosene, valued at Rs. 1,29,376, and SSSS** ad 

 37,943 cwt. wax, valued at Rs. 7,94,551 ; 1901-2, 16 gallons kerosene, 

 valued at Rs. 8, and 54,097 cwt. wax, valued at Rs. 9,45,443 ; 1902-3, 

 2,085 gallons kerosene, valued at Rs. 1,050, and 56,464 cwt. wax, valued at 

 Rs. 10,43,149 ; 1903-4, 913,908 gallons kerosene, valued at Rs. 4,27,692, 

 and 43,894 cwt. wax, valued at Rs. 8,13,128 ; 1904-5, 4,076,139 gallons 

 kerosene, valued at Rs. 19,99,413, and 54,707 cwt. wax, valued at Rs. 

 11,13,777; 1905-6, 1,766,566 gallons kerosene, valued at Rs. 8,83, i:l. 

 and 56,795 cwt. wax, valued at Rs. 11,58,394 ; and in 1906-7, 24,684 

 gallons kerosene, valued at Rs. 10,928, and 60,208 cwt. wax, valued at 



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