Kiangsi and Chekiang were required to provide between them a sum of Tls. 420,000 to furnish mining capital for the provinces of Yiinnanand Kueichow. Only about half of this amount having been supplied, the two officers referred to have been denounced to the Throne by the Board of Revenue for their laxity in the matter, and have been handed over to the Board of Civil Office for the determination of a fitting penalty. They are granted a limit of three months within which the full amount is to be cleared off, and are warned that further failure to comply with formal instructions will entail severe punishment.
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