During the present year the Canton Customs were required to supply the following contributions for Imperial purposes 1s. 160,000 from the Foreign Customa Revenue for the Peking subsidy; Tis, 190,000 from the six-tenths of the same revenue for further defence measures on the North East, and Tls, 140,000 for frontier preparations in general, All the above were to be retained in Canton and employed in repayment of the foreign loan. The following sums were to be forwarded to Peking direct: Tls. 6,000, quarterly. for augmenting the salaries of Peking officials, Tis, 40,000 annually for the sume purpose, and Tls. 300,000 for the Treasury of the Imperial Household. The Viceroy and Hoppo now report that they have borrowed Tis, 127,670 to furnish the second instalment of the above payments and state that the lenders, some Shansi bankers, will be repaid out of the Customs duties.
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