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This silver currency, except in so far as calculations under Treaties and agreements with Foreign Powers will require to be made as before, shall be uniformly used by all Yamens, great or small, in Peking or the provinces, in all their Treasury transactions, and all allowances for differences of weight or touch, or meltage fees &c., &c. shall henceforth be perpetually forbidden.
Let the Governors General and Governors of Provinces examine the conditions in their jurisdictions and devise means in conjunction with the Board of Finance for determining afresh, either by increasing or decreasing as the case may be, the allowances and rice money of territorial authorities and tax-collectors while on duty together with the expenditure for travelling on the public service, and let the rates be published openly by proclamation so that the peculations of clerks and Yamen runners may be abolished for ever.
As regards the diversity of silver currency in the various provinces, and the differences of touch, which give dishonest traders and market dealers the opportunity