11519 -1.361 0.9606 MINERALS. 113. Mineral Class Goods on N.-W. Railway.-All mineral class goods (other than coal, coke, and patent fuel) consigned in full wagon or truck loads (see para. 31) will be carried at the following rates according to the distance they are carried over the North-Western Railway : pie per maund per mile for distances below 100 miles. pie per maund per mile for distances over 100 miles and + pie per maund per mile for distances 300 miles & above. 2 Subject to the differential rule. Owners to load and unload. If the railway has to do this, 3 pies per maund will be charged for each operation. 16122 by bị cách Minerals packed in bags in smaller quantities, 1st class rate on actual weight for the distance carried. NOTE.-Minerals unpacked in smaller quantities will not be accepted for carriage over the N.-W. Railway. Minerals charged at the 1st class rate will be loaded and unloaded by the railway. RATES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE CARRIAGE OF COAL, COKE, AND PATENT 122. Rates and Conditions for the Carriage of Coal, &c., for the General Public. The following will be the scale of charges for the carriage, over the North-Western Railway, of coal, including coke and patent fuel, for the general public applicable alike to local and through traffic. When this traffic is booked over railways whose administrations have not adopted these rates, the through rates with such railways shall be the sum of the local rates, the local rates of the railways parties to this arrangement being the charges according to this tariff to or from the junction stations of the railway or railways which have not accepted this schedule. (a) Consignments of less than a wagon load— These consignments will be charged for as a full wagon load at the rates (b) Consignments in full wagon loads Per maund 126. Rebate on Aggregate of Consignments carried a less Distance than 500 Miles.-At the end of any calendar half-year a consignee, whose aggregate consignments to one station or via one junction during the half year shall have exceeded 50,000 maunds, may claim a refund in respect of the payments made in accordance with the following scale: The rebate under this scale will be limited to 10 per cent. of the total quantity carried. 127. Rebate on Aggregate of Consignments carried 500 Miles and more over the Home Line.-At the end of any calendar half-year a consignee, whose aggregate consignments to one station or via one junction during the half-year shall have exceeded 50,000 maunds, may claim a refund in respect of the payments made in accordance with the following scale : On quantities in excess of The rebate under this scale will be limited to 15 per cent. of the total quantity of coal carried. 129. All charges for loading and unloading coal into and from railway wagons, as well as those for transhipment at ferries, or otherwise, shall be at the entire cost of the consigners and consignees, and will be in addition to the rates herein prescribed. When it is necessary for the railway to load or unload, a charge of 3 pies per maund will be made for each operation. No. 514 R. C. of 1896. APPENDIX VII. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. Simla, the 17th April 1896. Terms on which the Government of India are prepared to consider offers for the construction by the agency of private companies of branch lines forming feeders either to State lines worked by the State or to railways worked by companies. Read Public Works Department Resolution No. 924 R. C., dated 15th Septem ber 1893. Also Public Works Department Resolution, dated 29th March 1895. OBSERVATIONS.-Many of the applications made under the above Resolutions show that the terms for the construction of branch or feeder lines of railway have not been fully understood. The Government of India have accordingly resolved to cancel the previous Resolutions above quoted upon this subject and to issue a fresh Resolution embodying a summary of the concessions which (the previous assent of any railway company concerned having been first obtained) they are now prepared to give for the construction of branch or feeder railways; such concessions being usually confined to lines not exceeding 100 miles in length. 2. It should be clearly understood that these concessions are not applicable to the larger or more important railways or to mountain branches, for which separate negotiations are in all cases necessary. RESOLUTION.-Branch lines forming feeders, whether to State lines worked by the State or to railways worked by companies, will ordinarily be made by the main line administrations, who shall have a prior right to construct them. The Government of India will from time to time publish a list of branch lines for the construction of which they are prepared to receive tenders. They will consider and dispose of any application for the inclusion in the said list of any other line which can properly be described as a branch or feeder line, and which does not, except in special circumstances, exceed 100 miles in length. 2. Proposals for the construction of branch lines under this Resolution must conform to the following terms and conditions : (i.) Applicants must satisfy the Government that they are in a position to command substantial financial support. (ii.) The gauge to be adopted must be approved by the Government in each case. (iii.) The proposed railway shall be subject to the provisions of all Acts of the legislature applicable to Indian railways. (iv.) The proposed railway shall be built in accordance with the fixed and moving dimensions for the time being prescribed by the GovernorGeneral in Council, and on plans and estimates that have been approved by that authority. The route of the line, the situation of stations, and other similar details, shall be subject to approval by the Government. (v.) The line, while under construction, shall be inspected when and so often as an inspecting officer appointed for that purpose by the Government may consider desirable with a view to ensure the construction of the line up to the standard agreed upon. U (vi.) Inasmuch as these railways are chiefly required for the development of country hitherto deficient in means of communication, and the anticipated profits may not therefore at once be fully realised, the Government of India are prepared to give financial assistance as set forth below. Proposals for financial concessions may be made in one or other of the following alternative forms: (a) It may be stipulated that after the opening of the railway for traffic Under (a) the company will receive an absolute guarantee of interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per cent, and a higher return if the net earnings of the branch are sufficient to pay more than the guaranteed dividend. the Government shall guarantee out of the revenues of India a fixed yearly minimum dividend in rupees on the actual expenditure charged in the capital account of the branch railway company as entered in rupees in the company's books in India, with such share of the surplus net profits as may be agreed upon. The minimum dividend to be guaranteed in each particular case will depend upon consideration of the eircumstances, but for the present no offer will be entertained that requires a guarantee exceeding 3 per cent.; or (b) It may be provided that a payment be made to the branch company by the main line to the extent necessary, together with the branch comreceive a dividend of 31 per pany's share of branch earnings [see Under (b) the company will cent. provided that the amount sufficient to pay a higher dividend. section (6) of paragraph 3] to give the branch company a dividend of 33 per cent. per annum on the actual expenditure charged in the capital account of the branch railway company as entered in rupees in the company's books in India; provided always that the payment so made to the branch company shall in no case exceed the net earnings of the main line from traffic interchanged with the branch. This rebate will be granted from the first earnings of revenue by the branch, such payment being calculated at the close of the year, payments on account, however, subject to adjustment, being permissible at the close of the first-half of each year. The net earnings of the main line from traffic interchanged with the branch are assumed to bear the same proportion to the gross earnings of the main line from such traffic as the net earnings of the whole system including the branch bear to the gross earnings thereof. If the net earnings of the branch line equal or exceed 3 per cent. on the actual expenditure as above, the whole of such earnings will go to the branch company. In either of the above cases (a) or (b) if the capital is raised in sterling, the capital to be entered in rupees in the company's books in India shall be the actual amount realised in rupees from time to time by the several remittances of funds to provide for expenditure in India, together with the sterling outlay from time to time in England converted into rupees at the average rate of exchange obtained by the Secretary of State for his remittances during the half-year preceding that in which the outlay shall have been incurred, and the capital expenditure in rupees on which the interest is from time to time to be calculated for the purposes of the guarantee or rebate, as the case may be, shall be the total outlay whether in India or England, up to any such time as thereto charged. (vii.) The general character of the supervision and control that will be exercised by the Government over the branch railway, apart from the provisions of the Railways Acts and the preceding provisions of this Resolution, shall be as follows: (a) No capital expenditure by the branch railway company will be allowed as between the Secretary of State and the company unless the prior sanction of the Secretary of State shall have been obtained. The company shall have no power to increase its share or stock capital without the sanction of the Secretary of State, or to borrow money except within a fixed limit and on specified conditions. (b) The branch railway company, if required, shall keep capital accounts and statistics in forms approved by the Secretary of State; and shall render, free of cost, all accounts and statistics required by the Government. The accounts and books will be subject to audit on behalf of Government. (viii.) Funds for the execution of new works, properly chargeable to capital, found necessary after the branch railway has been opened to public traffic shall be provided by the branch railway company. Such works and their cost shall be agreed upon between the branch railway company and the main line administration before they are put in hand. In the event of any difference of opinion arising between the branch railway company and the main line administration as to the necessity for and the cost of any new work, the matter shall be referred to the Director General of Railways as arbitrator, and his decision shall be final. (ix.) The rates and arrangements in force on State railways in the matter of services rendered to all Departments of the State shall apply. 3. The following are the principal additional concessions admissible for branch or feeder railways for the construction of which tenders may be invited: (1) The Secretary of State for India in Council, or the Government of India, respectively, will permit the charge of interest at a rate to be agreed upon in each case, during construction to the capital account of the railway under the terms of the Indian Railways Act of 1894 (57 and 58 Vict., Chapter 12), or the Indian Railway Companies Act X of 1895. (2) The land required for the construction of the branch railway will be provided free of cost. Such grant shall not include land required for quarrying, ballast, brickfields, and kindred purposes. (3) Electric telegraphs and telegraphic appliances will be supplied and maintained by the Government of India at the usual charges for such works. (4) The results of existing surveys will be made available free of charge. When desired, fresh surveys will be made by the Public Works Department of the Government of India of any branch railway on the applicants depositing the estimated cost thereof in a Government Treasury, on the understanding that no preferential claim to a concession is thereby established. If permission be eventually given for the construction of the line, the actual cost of all such surveys, as well as of those made at the cost of Government, may be included in the capital cost of the railway. No responsibility will be accepted by Government for the accuracy of any survey, plan, estimate, or other information supplied. (5) The branch railway may be constructed by the main line administration, and will be maintained and worked by that administration during the full currency of the contract to be entered into for the purpose, at a fixed ratio of expenses to earnings in each half-year. The ratio will, when the branch railway is of the same gauge as that of the working railway, usually be that obtaining on the whole system as from time to time existing, including the branch railway, but will not exceed 50 per cent. of the gross earnings of the branch from all sources, and will be inclusive of charges for the use of the main line rolling-stock. (6) Such expenses on account of the Board of Direction of the Branch Line Railway Company as may be incurred with the sanction of the Secretary of State may be charged (a) during construction to the Capital Account of the Branch Line Company; |