The Governor of Kiangsu submits a list of officials and mercantile agents for whom he solicits the bestowal of rewards in connection with the transport of Government rice during the year 1889. The quantity of rice which the province sent to Peking that year was 686,000 piculs and its transport was carried out without a hitch by native craft and the steamers of the China Merchants' Ca. Rewards on a scale sanctioned in previous cases are requested for the officers of all vessels which carried quantities varying from one thousand to ten thousand piculs.
22nd March.
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