The Governor of Anhui reports the circumstances connected with a disturbance in the Chien-t@ district caused by enforcing ment of the land tax. The Magistrate received instructions to make a'survey of the region snd report in what places an exemption from the tax ought to be granted, payment in other parts being enforced as usual, A number of tenants, holding farms which had not. suffered from the drought, having delayed payment for over ayeer, the Magistrate visited the locality fu person and summoned the tax collectors before him in the vtfice ut the Police Magistrate of the district, warning them that prompt payment would be demanded from the defaulting farmers. The latter, annoyed by the constant appeals made to 28th August.
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