Tus revenue collected by the Foreign Customs during the last quarter of 1901 shows a gain of nearly two million taels or forty per cent over that coliectel in the same quarter of 1900; but it must be remembered that 1900 was the year of the troubles iv the North, in which trade was inevitably seriously checked; and during a great part of the perind in 1901, import duties were collected under the enhanced tariff allowed by the Peace Protocol. Notwithstanding this, the revenue was only a quarter of @ million taels or about four per cent larger than in 1899 which was a record year. Of the twenty-nine treaty ports, as will be seen in the table which follows, there were only four, Wuhu, Ningpo,
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