Yang Ch'ang-tsin, Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent and Governor-General of the Shénkan provinces, in a report on the recently established Customs at the Chiayit gate of the Great Wall, leading from Kansu province through to the New Dominion and the Russian possessions in Central Siberia, states that commencing from the 3rd of July 1892 to the 22nd of June 1893, or one lunar year, the Customs receipts on transit passes received at the said gate amounted to only is. 74, 9 mace and 3 candareens, from which must be deducted the usual percentage allowed to such institution, to wit, 8 mace and 9 candareens thus making the actual receipts for the government of Tis, 74 and 3 candareens. Memorialist having verified the above accounts now humbly begs leave to presen' them for His Majesty's perusal.
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