Turkestan acknowledges the receipt of a despatch from the Board of Revenue forwarding him a copy of the regulations under which the sale of official rank was to be conducted in order to procure funds for the repair of the breach in the Yellow River. The system was to remain in force for one year, and periodical reports were 2 be forwarded of the number of titles the sale. The Governor remarks. that disposed of and the proceeds resulting from
Turkestan being on the extreme limits of the Empire contains but few of the literary class, and these for the most part only province. ing the four months in temporary residents and not natives of the which the system has been in operation sum rte 9,811.5.4, which is retained in ly forty titles have been sold, realizing the Treasury pending the receipt of the Board's instructions as to its disposal. Provisional certificates have been issued to the forty applicants, and a memorandum giving their ages, describing their appearance, and recording the history of their family for three generations forms an enclosure in this despatch.
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