Te Shou, Governor of Kiangsi, reports that the Imperial Porcelain Kilns of Kiangsi are required to send to Peking every year a stipulated number of pieces for ornament and dinner and kitchen use in the Palaces, for which work there is an annual grant by government of Tls. 10,000. The Kiukiang Taotsi has uow presented his accounts of the said kilns for 1894. He states that there were made during the year under review eighty Inrgesized engraved pieces of superior colour, (ABE BRB for ornamental use; 1,240 pieces of superior coloured round shape porcelain utensils (F & [2s and fur special use in the kitchens and pantry of the Ch'uhsiu Palace there were made, according to the Imperial command, 10,223 pieces of superior colored pore-lain utensils of various sizes and sh"pe. All of the above were finished in 1894 and sent in the latter part of that year by steame: s to Peking, this being the spe-chest and safest made of transport. The total amount expense fur the above in the purchase of motorials and labour amounted during that year to Tls. 39,989.89, odd, and deducting the regular appropriation of Tls. 10,000 there is a detivit of Ts. 29,989.89, odd which according to precedent should be made good from the surplus taxes in the provincial treasury. An inventory of the various articles tarned out by she above kilns, their value, ete., is hereby appended.—Rescript: Noted. Let the Bowd of Revenue record the inventory herein sent.
26th December.
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