Chang Yao brings forward a request made through the Finance Commissioner by the Liu-ching District Magistrate to the effect that he be not called upon to deliver the number of bricks which in accordance with the regulations he ought to deliver. It appears that at various times during the last twenty years his predecessors were instructed to furnish quantities of bricks amounting in all to some 991,603 pieces. These orders were duly executed and the
mission to the capital. In former days they bricks stored in a yard youding their trans-used to be trans po the grain junks, bat of lia yeu the ga Eivate tow the Provincial Treasurer Wang Té-pang asa roper to act in his absence.—Let Kiangsu and Chekiang goes by sea, and that nang Huai-sen (the Provincial Judge) of Honan has been commuted for a money take temporary charge. payment, so that there only now remain the few Shantung junks, the accommoda-
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