As previous Gazettes have frequently mentioned, the sale of official rank was authorised for one year as a means of raising money for the repair of the breach in the Yellow River. The Viceroy at Foochow now reports that the amount realised from this source during the past year in Fokien is Tis, 18,463.7 which represents payments made by 65 persons who have purchased various degrees of official rank.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.