Chun have submitted to the Bureau of Land Demarcation the suggestion thi the Government should first appoint officials to survey and map out the land, and then authorize the gentry and local officers to. remeasure all cultivated land, both works to be completed in seven years; that the cost is estimated at 335,000,000; and that a branch office for land demarcation be estab! in the yamen of every provincial governor who should be appointed associate-director in this gigantic Project.
A few days ago, the Minstry of Finance telegraphed to the' provinces, asking for _opinions to the Ministry's proposal to levy from 10 to 30 cash per mow as additional tax on land. Several provinces have replied saying that the remeasuring of land has already roused popular suspicion, that an increase in Jand tax at this juncture would only gravate popular ill-feeling without any certainty of success, and they dare not consent to the proposal.
The Government has sent cit cular telegram informing the provinces that increase of the land-tax and remeasuring of land are two different matters, hence the superior officials of the provinces must 10! oppose the latter step under pretext of protesting against the form hould they regard with an increase in land-tax.
The Amnesty.
Wang Chin-fah, ex-Tutuh of Shaohsing during the revolution of 1911,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.