Chihli, and the Governor of Kiangsu present a statement of receipts and expenditure at the Nanking Arsenal for the sixteenth year of the Emperor's reign (1890). The "income of the Arsenal is derived principally as follows;—The Shanghai Customs "'two tenths " fund gives 'Tis, 60,000; the Provincial Defence Board, 'Tls. 30,000'; the Anhui Troops' 'Treasury at Yangchow, Tls. 20,000; to which is added from different sources 'Tls. 14,000 for shot, practice ammunition and' the like; and in years of thirteen months the Custom house supplies another Tls. 10,000. During the year in question the total receipts came to Tis, 124,531.9, in addition tow balance at the beginning of is. 103.4. The expenditure was, for purchases. of articles and materials of all kinds Tls. 54,931.1; workmen's food and wages, Tls. 48,095.7; superintendence, management and guards Tls. 12,197.6; freight by native boats and steamers, and advances of money, Tls. 6,620; repairs 2,752.3; total, Te. 124,595.9, leaving a balance of Tls. 39.4
—Referred to the Tsungli Yamen, which will be duly accounted for next yea.
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