(2) The proceeds of the subscriptions for inugubcient to supply the subsidy alloted the purchase of official rank having proved to the Northern Superintendent of Trade, the Board of Revenue has written a circular letter to the provinces intimate ing that the deficiency is to be made peed, phe import and lekin duties levied on foreign opium. Li Hung-chang also wrote a similar note to say that the time had arrived for paying the balance clu: for the purchase of ships and guns, and that he was waiting for the arrival of the provincial subsidies to enable him to remit the amount in sterling. The Superintendent of Customs at Foochow now reports that he j has forwarded a sum of Tls.58,979.
7.21 ing the joint contribution of the Custom at Foochow and Amoy.
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