Peking, Nov. 23.
By order of the President Encouragement of Industry and Commerce, In a despatch from the Teancheng. yuan, acting in the capacity of th Lifayuan, it is requested that our policy of political economy and the development of native commerce should be pursued with redoubled vigour, in order to improve the livelibood of the people. The numerous products and rich resources of China can meet every requirement of our people. If our people are judiciously guided by some initial step in extending the market of our old products aa energetically as possible, they lack neither patriotism nor adaptability to profit easily by the modern models and inventions of other countries. The improvement of our manufactures will ultimately benefit both the nation and the people by furnishing more taxable goods and may result in the prosperous development of native commerce all round. As what the Teanchengyuan has suggested is in connexion with the question of in Proving our economic.conditions which is a very urgent question at present, let the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce speedily consider and suggest the proper modes of procedure to be adopted for our consideration, and confer with other Ministries conosrned to proceed in the matter in conjunction.
Peking, Nov. 25.
By order of the President:—
The Reward of a Zealous OMctal.
The Ministry of Finance submits a telegram from Chang Ming-chi, Governor of Kuangsi, reporting that who K'ung Chao-sing, Chief of the Financial lat, who supervised the collection of the taxes for the examination of title-deeds, has rendered conspicuous service in raising ex amount \of over $1,730,000, and
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