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to be paid over
monthly, in relief of the pressing necessities of the Military
funds; why should the payments be
made only
once in
six months? It
is plain that the high Authorities give
their full consent.
Frone these Seventeen Merchants
the Viceroy received altogether by way
of gratuity (ie bribe) for the tux farms grunted, the
durr
of 105,000 Tuels,
his secretaries received gratuities in:
addition amounting to two per
cent on the foregoing
sum, in all
20,600 Turls; and the five officers of the Viceroy's stuff, viz : Tuo, Luv, Zany, Ma, and
the
tat
and Hou who had
cagement of these affairs
a surVU
equal to 3 per cent, or 30,400 --
got
Jucts. The total
StipqZ
of gratuities was
154, 500 Tuels, which had to be paid in
- cash, from five to ten days being giver for the discharge in full . The total shows that the gratuities exceed the
amount of tax by 46,820 Tucts .
With these gratenties the high Authorities first filled their
pockets, trading in the Emperor and using the
of the troops
they
As
FVATIVE
of the
necessities
pretext upon which -raise extensive tuxes - stuffing
all their purses while they let the important public moncy for the
months for
: Utring wait six-
payment. Such uction us this