Chou receives the following yearly allowances:—Tls. 800 as anti-extortion money, is. 155 salary, Tls. 143.8 to supply rations for his troops, and Tls. 399.3 to provide fodder for the cavalry horses. Under existing arrangements only the anti-extortion money is issued in full, while a reduction of 30 per cent. is made on all the other payments, thus reducing the total to Tls. 1,280, a sum Jess than the annual expenditure of an Intendancy or Prefecture. Lit Chou being situat on the borders of the Empire the price of necessaries there is double of what it is in other parts of China, and the lieutenant-general, being obliged to keep up a separate establishment and cousiderabe state, his expenditure is pro: portion ately large. The applicant has held the post for several years, and although he is of strictly economical habits he has been unavoidably involved in financial embarrassment, From " Memorial that appeared in the Gazette last autumn he learned that the Tartar General at Ning-hsia had obtained Imperial sanction for an increase to cedent established at, Ch'eng-tu. The his allowance, in accordance with the
Memorialist observes also that the income of the post at Liang Chou is considerably less than that at Ning-hsia, while the expenditure is greater; a fact which must be well known to His Majesty. He therefore wake, hat his yearly allowance be increased by Tls. 1,000, and that the Governor-General of the Shankan provinces may be authorised to issue him the increased amount from the beginning of the present year.—Rescript: Referred to the consideration of the board concerned.
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