1.—To make the wealthy responsible for the taxes of their poor neighbours, 2,—To allow the literary graduates to be collectors of land tax.
3.—Employment by officials of relatives or personal servants as collectors, October 17th.—(1) Ch'én Lan-pin Vice-President of the Uourt of Censors and formerly Minister of the Tsungli Yamen, is permitted to retire on the ground of ill-health.
2) Wang Chia-miv, Acting Director-General of Grain Transport, announces his arrival at his post. occupied with a report from Chung. lin, Governor-General of Shi and Kane ssu, on the result of a scrutiny of the accounts of a certain military commandant of a town near Urumtsi, who had been accused of fraud. The details are complicated and uninteresting, October 18th.—(1) The Governor of Sha tung reports the partial ok breaches in the ' peopl the Oh'i-tung and Li-d freshets together with the gaps croated by the people themselves (? to save their folds from inundation), and the that are now being taken to render these gaps secure against {arther pressure, It has been ase 4 certained that thirty-one people in all were drowned when the embankments carried away, and relief has to the famil (2) The same oticer reports th purchase of war material for the arse Ohi-nan Fi Yellow Copper sheeting, An office 10 been sent to Shangh with the 1,200 to purchase he following store Black lend 100,000 cation, Red Copper shooting 10,000 Yellow srw By000 also commissioned to purchase sup-of steel an rounding wall, together with cleating of the bed of the Wu-lich river and the repair of the sluices and dams b; which the water of the river are regulated, The total cost of thesorepairs was'T'ls, 92,985, October 19th.—(1) A Decree announcing the receipt of Her Majesty's commands in answer to applications from the Board of Ceremonies and other yamens for instruc tions as to the prepara on the occasion of the fi of Her Majesty's birth, that upon the day in question Her Majesty intends to give a banquet in the inner precincts of the Palace at the conclusion of the ceremonial observances to be gone through in the Tu-ning Throne Hall; no banquet therefore need be prepared by the department concerned. The Princesses, Princesses Consort, and ladies of title are commanded to attend at the Palace upon this day.
(2) In the course of a Memorial calling attention to the dilapidated condition of the doors of one of the Peking Granaries the absence of all supervision over the issue of Government rice (v, Gazette of 3rd Oct.) the supervising Censor of there Gravaries suggests that stock should be taken of the contents of all the granaries and fresh registers of their contents drawn up in order to prevent fraud. So gi tic a task as the measurement of the contents of these granaries would be very simple if the system were applied by which the
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