In a further memorial the same Governor deals with the question of rewarding those who contributed to the fund in aid of the sufferers from the famine above mentioned in Chinkiang and Ch'ang-chou Fu, Altogether a very large sum was devoted to the relief of these unfortunate people. From the provincial treasury were taken Tls. 198,014, which part belonged to the subsidy due to dollars, cash, and corn, given in Kiangeu Kann; while the private donations of silver, itself and other provinces, and including what was collected locally in the neighbourhood of the famine district, came to no less than Ts, 360,000. This common fund was Administered by aBoard at head quarters, instalments being issued as required, and every penvy carefully accounted for. ' After the end of the work, there remained a balance of Tis, 128,512 and 852,414. All this money in the provincial treasury, and, as has already been explained to the Emperor, will not be touched for any purpose whatever except for executing river works of different kinds. The Viceroy at Nanking subscribed Tls. 1,400 to the fund, the late Governor and the present Governor of the Bovine, each Tis, 2,000, The Governor urman collected Ts, 6,000. The Governor of Kueichow, the Superintendent of the Soochow Factory, the Grain Indendant, and the Magistrate of Ch'ang-chou (Soochow) each gave Tle. 1,000. 'The Prefect of Soochow and another official, each 'Tls. 600. For none of these gentlemen' does the memorialist dare to ask any reward. But with regard to other subscribers, he sends a further list in continuation of the four that he has already presented, mentioning only those whose donations are sufficiently large to merit a reward; while he keeps a record of the smaller contributions, in order that the accounts may be properly balanced.
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