This year the Board of Revenue proposed that the Province of Chekiang should be desired to supply Tls. 220,000 from its salt taxes and salt likin for the use of the central government, and Tls. 50,000 from the salt taxes for the maintenance of the Imperial Household. Tis, 10,000 were also required from the Province for the purchase of ginseng for the Emperor. The governor has now sent a sum of Tls. 90,000, which completes the amount demanded on all three accounts. The silver has been given into the charge of two officials, who will convey it to shanghai and thence by steamer to Tientsin, from which port it will be carried overland to the capital.
18th December.
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