<P> In 1878, a uniform salt tax policy was adopted for the whole of India, both British India as well as the princely states . Both production as well as possession of salt was made unlawful by this policy . The salt tax, which was one rupee and thirteen annas per maund in Bombay, Madras, Central Provinces, and the princely states of South India, was increased to two rupees and eight annas, and decreased from three rupees and four annas in Bengal and Assam to two rupees and fourteen annas, and from three rupees to two rupees and eight annas in North India . </P> <P> Section 39 of the Bombay Salt Act, which was the same as Section 16 - 17 of the Indian Salt Act, empowered a salt - revenue official to break into places where salt was being illegally manufactured and seize the illegal salt being manufactured . Section 50 of the Bombay Salt Act prohibited the shipping of salt overseas . </P> <P> The India Salt Act of 1882 included regulations enforcing a government monopoly on the collection and manufacture of salt . Salt could be manufactured and handled only at official government salt depots, with a tax of Rs1 - 4 - 0 on each maund (82 pounds). </P> <P> In 1944 the Central Legislative Assembly passed the Excises and Salt Act (Act No . I of 1944), which though modified in India and Pakistan, remain in force in Bangladesh . </P>

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