By authority of Viceroy Yuan Shih-k aig an office to collect taxes on ricshas and agers and goods' carts has been established in Tientsin, A monthly levy of fifty cents for rieshas and seventy-five cents for cuts, ete., has been decided the focal native Government of the city upon, which it is estimated will bring to and environs something like $3,5)0 per mensem, to be mainly devoted to the maintenance of pablic roads.
In Memoriam Vu Lien-yuan. hai who were here during the Boxer Residents, foreign and native, of Shai
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