Another aspect of the Viceroy's rule in person at Kueilinis revealed in the following Episode. A proclamation was put out that no pawnshop was to take arms subject to pains and penalties. melt in need of fands, the estate official sends his own agents with arms to pawn. Five shops' accepted them, but a small affair refused. Grand finale; the five mulcted tw the tane of ten thousand taels apiece, but the small shop escaped what otherwise would have been its downfall. Oh righteous judge! If the people were not for the most part better than their "guides " Ohina would be in a sorry plight.
Foreign; Bills. and wholesale fraud is fo be found in Another instance of jobbery somewhat
are called yang pio, i.e. foreign which can be obtained for $4.00 each. The value of these is that one frees one hundred loads or piculs, of any kind of goods, from all further Imposta, whether for import or
large quantities of goods are being imported export matters not. Under oerer of this from the surroundings districts.free. of farther payments, and large quantities of other things are being to Wuchou. How long this fraud will go on will depend on wisdom of those running it, ut itis a daring scheme of cheating the Customs and_all the other tax-collecting agencies.
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