Peking, July 10. The Government scheme for the reorganization of the Salt Gabelle is a6 follows The Government will buy all salt produced from the holders of leases of salt-londo and re-sell it to mer. chants after adding the tax of $2 per picul, thereby facilitating the collection of the tax and preventing dishonest collusion between the producer and the merchant. A year or two hence the Government will resume possession of the salt-lands of the interior and establish update factories throughout the coastal provinces, at which salt-bricks will be manufactured according to the Dutch system.
Hitherto, the revenue from the salt-tax has been, approximately Tls. 40,000,000 a year, taxation being at the rate of Tls. 2 a picul.
Heiung Hsi-ling estimates that this scheme for working the monopoly, while almost halving the pre-
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