TRAVELLING IN CASHMERE 



4. Requisitions for transport must be delivered to the 

 Rai Sahib or the Transport Agents, as the case may be, 

 at least 30 hours before the transport is required. 



5. Applications for transport will be booked according 

 to priority of receipt. In the event of all the coolies and 

 ponies at a stage being already engaged for the day, any 

 further requisitions for transport on that day will be 

 returned with an intimation to that effect. 



6. Persons must avail themselves of the transport for 

 which they have indented on the day and at the time 

 mentioned in their requisitions, otherwise their requisitions 

 will be considered cancelled, and they will be liable to pay 

 half rates for the transport entered in their requisitions. 



7. A voucher in duplicate will invariably be furnished 

 when the transport is supplied. Travellers are requested 

 to sign one voucher as an acknowledgment of the receipt 

 of transport entered therein and return it to the Transport 

 Officer by whom it is presented, the duplicate copy should 

 be kept in case of any cause for complaint arising. 



8. The rates for hire of transport under these rules are : 



Rs. a. p. 



For each coolie ... ... ... o 4 o 



,, kahar ... ... ... o 7 o 



a baggage pony ... ... o 12 o 



a riding pony with English saddle i o o 



These rates are for each full stage or distance less than 

 a full stage. 



9. Each coolie will carry a load of 25 sers and each pony 

 one of two maunds. 



These are the maximum weights and must not be ex- 

 ceeded. 



10. On arrival at their destination (or at Magam, in 

 the case of a journey between Gulmarg and Srinagar) 

 travellers are requested to dismiss the transport engaged 

 by them with the least practicable delay. 



11. The journeys between Srinagar and Gulmarg, and 

 Baramula to Gulmarg, and vice versa, as also from Gul- 



