produces copper & iron ore, beryl, bead & tea, for which privilege if allowed to make the
for six months, he
Experiment, for which & pay the sum of
$5700
J
tally, to be paid in contribution to Remitting
Expenditure
the Province
on the day when the authority open the mine should be opened & him, with
to
further proviso that, unless the undertaking should prove profitable during the period of six months, he should pay a further sum of $5000 penalty.
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total payment $ 12000 and would acquiesce permission to Continue the contract for 10
years, at the annual rental $ 2000 Commencing the Autumne quarter
to
Ending with quarter of 1866. Orders having hereupon
been issued to the local authority to duly examine and report, and Lin Feng-han having fulfilled the conditional permission for six months, on payment of stipulated, orders were issued to the magistrate of the Chang
The Label
Kwei district. A REPLY & the
fulfilment of the instruction, of the higher authority, & Subseqently,
Up to this point the detail of instruction, and arrangements with Lin have been abridged in translating
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