Soup kitchens are established every winter in the suburbs of Paoting Fu, and the Viceroy Li expresses the opinion that relief is nieve urgently required this year then ever, on account of the distress caused by the recent floods, The agents who have been appointed to superintend the distribation are to issue 3 ho of rice per to adult applicants and half that quantity to children, In cases where there sare large families without any means of livelihood a more liberal scale of relief will be adopted. The distribution is to commence on the first of the 10th moon and to be continued once every five days during the remainder of the winter.
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