—(1) The Board of Revenue presents a list of the Chief Treasurers and Chief Justices for the Provincesof Szechuen, Hupeh, Kiangsu and Chihli, and requests that according to precedent one of these officers may be appointed from each of the said provinces to superintend the conveyance of copper en yonte from Yunnan to Peking. Like their predecessors the officers nominated will be charged with this duty for a period of three years. They will each apaint an assistant of the rank of Taotai or refect, will take part with the local authorities in seeing to the forwarding of the copper; and they will report at once any case that may come to their notice of unreasonable delay, pilfering, or other
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