The Archive · 1887

Monthly Report on Chekiang Sea Wall

(6) Tu accordance monthly report, accompanied by a diagram, has to be submitted to the Throne on the condition of the sea wall in the de} of Jeu-ho and of Haining in Chekiang, the Governor of that province reports that the two freshets he twelfth moon of last year passed by without damage to the walls or stakes.

BEMITTANCES FOR THE YELLOW RIVER WORKS, (6) The Governor of Chekiang reports the remittance of Tls. 190,000 to Shantung, -being the contribution demanded from that former province towards the Tls. 2,240,000 required for the Yellow River Works." In accordance with instructions received from the Board of Revenue, this sum has been drawn from the revenue.derived from the increased lekin on foreign opium. ennouucing the despatch of this remittance the Governor takes opportunity of Pointing out that the collection of the additional lekin on foreign opium is not, as the board seemed to imagine from the instructions issued by-thow, under the Airection of the Customs Taotai at Ningyo, but is managed by the lesin bureau,

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