(8) The same writer acknowledges the receipt of 4 communication from the Board of Revenue stating that the camp-followers in the various armies were to be abolished from the eleventh moon of the present year and that the saving thus effected was to be applied to repairing the breach in the Yellow River. There are 540 camp-followers in the Tarbayatai force, all of whom were abolished a month earlier than the board directed. The saving will be Tls.1,620 per month, " The funds for Tarbagatai are forwarded periodically from the Kansu treasury, and the memorialist has written to the oticer in charge of it to deduct the above amount from future remittances and retain it, pending the receipt of instructions from the board as to its disposal.
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