(2) The remittance of the first instalment of the subsidy demanded from the Canton Customs for the 13th year of Kuang Hsii is reported by the high authorities at Canton. The following are the items of the assessment for the year in question and of the present remittance: Annual Present Tia.
Peking subsidy (from foreign Customs duties) 100,000 25,000 Surplus assessment 60.000 For North-east Frontier Defence (from the three-fifth's share of foreign Customs adi 10,000 Fund for increasing salaries of duties) 120,000
Peking officials.
40,000 maintained. Though this custom has been Fund for increasing salaries of followed for several centuries, it has been Peking officials' (from the the cause of nearly all the frontier troubles, two-fifth's share of foreign and has given rise to continual disputes for Customs duties) 24,000 6,000 territory among the tribes in which the Imperial Household and Trea-weak have always been made the prey of sury of the Privy Pars 300,000 75,000 the stronger. Some time ago, Chany Pingch'iian, the chief of Lo-thei-shan (the Bloc!
Hills of the Lolos) seized upon thirty hamlets Meetings. trate of Méngneng, and as Memorialist within the jurisdiction of the native Ma;
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