that he recently received from the high The Governor of Kiangsu represents
authorities of Shansi an urgent appeal for pecuniary assistance on account of the great amount of distress prevailing in different parts of that province. He therefore sent them ten thousand taels, six thousand of which came from the Shanghai Likin Office, and four thousand from the Soochow Office. The money was remitted through a native bank about the middle of last February.—Approved.
12th April.
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