(4) Liu Chin-tang presents 2 Memorial giving a statement of the revenue and population of Chinese Turkestan.
Since the has enabled a census of the population to be pacification of the country a lai number taken. In the whole province the Chinese, of colonists have been introduced, the lands Chinese Mohammedans, turbaned Moham-cultivated are not in all cases the same as medans, and Chinese immigrants together before, and there have been changes in the amount't0266,959 households, and 1,238,583 boundaries of districts. It has, therefore, souls. The population is most scanty on been found impossible to restore the old the north road, and t efforts should be regulations, and the officers concerned have made to attract immigrants there. It must been content to measure the land and be noted that there is no early harvest in assess it for taxation.
Turkestan, and the whole collection of land On the north road officers sent by the tax takes place when the crops are gathered lute Viceroy Tso Tsung-tang have at vain autumn.—Reseript: Let the Board of rious times measured all the ground in Revenue take note.
Ti-hua, Ch'ang-chi, Fou-k'ang, Sui-la
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