A postscript memorial by Fu Yun, Governor of Shantung, states that although the province of Shantung is liable to periodical inundations by the overflowing of the banks of the Yellow river, and the funds in hand for river works as' well as for the relief of native sufferers are none too much, yet the harrowing details of the sufferings of the poor people of the seven departments beyond the Great Wall and those of Tat'ung and Shuhp'iug within China Proper belonging to the neighbouring province of Shansi are such that cramped as memorialist himself and his subordinates are, still they cannot bear to stand by and calmly looks on at the wants of a neighbour. It would be against all instincts of Charity. Hence the niemorialist, his colleagues the Provincial Treasurer and Judge; the Taotais, Prefects, department and city magistrates of Shantung have clubbed together by which the sum of Tls. 20,000 have been gathered in aid of the sufferers of the nine prefectures and departments of the neighbouring province of Shansi. It is proposed to send Tls. 10,000 to the care of Sheng Hsiianhuai, Customs Taotai at Tientsin, for transmission to Shansi where the money can be distributed by the expectant sub-prefect P'an Ming-piao now in the famine districts of that province, and the other Tls. 10,000 to be sent in a draft to the Governor of Shansi for distribution by that official's deputies towards the same end. In consideration of which memorialist now reports the matter to the Throne in accordance with precedent.—Kescript: Let the Board of Revenue take note.
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