The Imperial Factory at Soochow was formerly granted a yearly allowance from the surplus revenue of the Hu Shui Customs of Tls. 30,000 a year, with Tls, 2,500 extra for intercalary months, to cover the expenditure upon stuffs supplied to the Imperial Household. The Customs receipts having proved insufficient for the purpose, permission was received to draw the' amount annually from the Treasury of the Lieutenant-Governor at Soochow. The Superintendent of the Factory reports that the cost of material supplied during the year ending the Ist of April last amounted to Tls. 33,076.1.3.4, the cost of packing and carriage Tls. 2,554,7.3.8, and there was a deficit from the previous year of Ts. 2,726.6.9.5. making afetal Tls.'38,337.5.6.7. Tls. 53,500, there is still a deficit 'a The receipts fur the present year Tls. 5,837.5.6.7 to be carried on to the succeeding year*
RESTORATION OF BARKACKS AT JEHO, The barracks at Jeho having been swept
of Chihli was ordered to provide for ro-ay by a flood two years ago, the Viceroy building them a sum of TIs. 60,000, which his province had owed to the 'Treasury of the Taotai at Jeho for over win' Remittances amounting to Ts,,000, were forwarded by the Financial Commissioner of the province, and a sum of Tls. 37,613.1.6 has been spent in restoring 1,118 chien of the dilapidated buildings. There being no funds available for the repair of the remainder, an urgent request has been addressed to the Chibli authorities to secure payment of the balance of the debt.
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