When likin was abolished, Gen. Hsiung continued, the incidence of taxation fell somewhat heavily upon the agricultural areas. By instituting a commodity tax graded as to manufactured art ides, and luxuries, he thad been able' to lighten the' burden. of the peasant proprietors. Further, he lad reorganised the system of tax collection by making the villagers mutually responsible for the payment of taxes direct to the magi trate instead of individually through an official collector.
One of his ambitions, said the Governor, was to compile a Domes day Book of Kiangsi, and materia\ Iready had been collected in two This was preliminary to a yevisal of the land tax and the ovenful relief of the poorer
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