The Madras Revenue Register Volume 4 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...time augmented. There has been no arrest of cultivation; there has been no glut of produce. A slight reduction in the extent of cultivation in the most recont years must undoubtedly be ascribed, not to the depressing influence of au export duty but to some local discouragements to wet cultivation and to the failure of local rains. The expansion of wet cultivation has been helped by a reduction of assessments and by State irrigation works; in the opinion of Government it is practically circumscribed by the water-supply alone. The profits of the cultivation are undeniable and abundant. The price is regulated and sustained by the home demand constantly rising with the increasing prosperity of the country. Tho Government believe that the causes which have so favourably affected this branch of cultivation in the past will continue to affect it in, tho future, and that the influence of the export duty in an opposite sense will in comparison be almost imperceptible It seems not improbable to the Government that if the export duty was abolished the effect of the measure, as far as this part of India is concerned, would neither be felt in an increase of remuneration to the domestic producer nor in a reduction of price to the foreign consumer; but that the whole, or nearly the whole, of the amount now paid to the State would be paid to the exporter. In short, tho prosperity of this Presidency is not materially affected by the impost complained of. It remains with the Governmont of India to determine whether tho practical evil inflicted by the duty elsewhere is such as to justify tho sacrifice of revenue which would be involved in the measure proposed. This Government would, of course, see the present reduction and eventual abrogation of the duty with satisfaction, bu...