BULLET AND SHOT 



luggage not requiring a special cart being carried at 

 fixed rates. 



Tongas, except those carrying the mails, may run only 

 by daylight, and each tonga may carry but one maund 

 and a half of luggage, the allowance in the case of a 

 family tonga being reduced to one maund only. The 

 free allowance of luggage for each seat in the mail tonga 

 is twelve seers. 



The time occupied respectively in making each of these 

 journeys by tonga is as follows : 



Between Rawalpindi and Murree ... 6 hours. 

 Murree and Baramula, inclusive 



of two nights' halt ... ... 48 



,, Baramula and Srinagar ... ... 6 



Heavy packages for Cashmere should be sent at least 

 ten days in advance, to ensure their reaching destination 

 before the arrival of the travellers. 



(An English sovereign may be roughly calculated as 

 equivalent to fifteen rupees, though the value of the latter 

 varies slightly.) 



NOTICE. (Verbatim.} 



The Kashmir Durbar having introduced a Civil Trans- 

 port Corps to assist in the requirements of travellers 

 between Srinagar and Gulmarg, and Gulmarg and Bara- 

 mula, the following rules (sanctioned by the Kashmir State 

 Council under Resolution No. 9, dated 2nd June, 1894, and 

 approved of by the Resident in Kashmir), regulating the 

 employment of this transport, are published for information 

 of the public : 



1. The Transport Corps will only work from the I5th 

 April to the I5th October of each year. 



2. Transport can only be obtained at Srinagar, Gulmarg 

 and Baramula. 



3. Requisitions for transport at Srinagar should be 

 addressed to RaJ Sahib Amar Nath, but at Gulmarg and 

 Baramula to the Transport Agent. 



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