states that accord Commissariat depart-went of the Ministry of Finance is abolished and ite daties are to be taken up by the Army Supply Department of the Ministry of War, Likewise, ite department of levies, taxer and dues will be transferred to the General Tax Bareao. The Financis! Commission will be dissolved; and " special depart-went to control financial questions crested in the Ministry of Finance, The Imperial Household will be inavgarated as another Ministry, and will absorb the Ministry of (ceremonies, the Imperial Board of Astronomy, The Imperial Bodyguard Corps and the College of Imperial Phy mich will be abolished.
With regard to the high Pro Anthori all the Vie are to be abolished, and exch separate province raled by a Governor.
TRE SALT TAXES, Dake Tsai Tse, being convinced of the ter impossibility in reforming th system of coll-cting the salt ud dues, the corruptions and malpractices having been of to long a standing to admit of any change short of revolutionizing the entire aystem, has decided to institute a now syatex, which may be termed "the output tax" poses that the ealt te collected on the spot, where daced once for quantity, By this mea mut would be saved the expsnditares of maw salt tax offices, and the enormous amount of squecsiog and smaggliog would be impracticable; thus the benefit to the Imperial coffee according to the Dake's calcalatio would ba an increase of more than twoaty million tacle a year.
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