According to a report from the Governor of Kirin, the duties collected last year on general produce amounted to Tls. 3,928, after deducting fifteen per cent. for the expenses of the staff; while the amount according to the fixed assessment should have been Tis, 6,742. 'The causes to which this fulling off is uscribed are, first, excessive rains, which had a serious effect on the growth of all crops; secondly, in the eastern part of the province, the shipment ofeargves for the south from' Vindivostock, so that they escaped taxation; and a diminution in the quantity of ginseng, skins and deer horns, owing to the more general cultivation of the ground by the increased population, and the consequent destruction of the wastes and thickets, The Governor guarantees the truth of these statements, and declares that the poverty of the collectors of customs is such that they could not find means to make good the deticiency.-—Referred te the Board of Revenue.
FUNDS FOR KOBDO AND UEIASUTAI, The Manchu authorities at Suiyuan in Shansireportthatthey have received the sum of Tls. 100,366 forthe use of the government in_Uliasutai and Kobdo. Tls. 95,366 of this money has been provided from the From that-of Riangsl, The money "has provincial treasury of Shansi, and Tls. 5,000
een handed in portions to several oticers, who will convey it to its destination. 'The memorialists are also despatching fourteen soldiers'to Uliasutai, to take the place of men whose term of three years' service has expired, 29th July.
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