Chit Yit-chee, at the rate of Tls. 5,000 por mow, for a strip of his property, 10 feet wide and 230 feot in length, for the pi purpose ther of widening the Honan road between the Kiukiang and Nankin roads.
New Municipal Regulations.—The following letter from H.E. M. von Brandt, H.I. German Majesty's Minister at Peking, la ordered to be published Peking, 9th July, 1881.
Siz,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, a few days ago, of your letter dated Sth June, and forwarding/fo me the Draft of the Regulations and By-Cawe for the Foreign Settlement at Shanghai, North of the Yang-king-pang, as approved by the Ratepayers. I shall not fail to gi attention to the proposals emanating from the foreign community at Shanghai and to lay them before my Government, but the revised Regalationscoutaining many important changes as compared with the former ones, a certain time will elapse before I shall find myself in a position to transmit to you the decision which my Government, in conjunction with those of China and' the Treaty Powers, may have arrived at, Thave the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, vox Branpr.
Lorne; Esq., d man to the Council for the Foreign Community of Shanghai, North of the Yang-king-pang.
The Meeting then adjourned.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.