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my

373

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

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