THE
CHINESE REPOSITORY.
VOL. XIX.-MARCH, 1850.-No. 3.
Aur. L. Notice of the years of famine and distress which have occurred at Shánghái, recorded in the Statistics of Shánghái, DURING the third year of the emperor Yenyú
(^. D. 1316),
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the district of Shánghái was flooded, and the land taxes were reduced ; a famine followed in the next year, and grain was distributed amongst the people. In the 24 year of Shunti (1336), there was a dearth, and the granaries were ordered to be opened, and their con- tents, together with the donations of the wealthy, distributed amongst the starving people. During the eighth year of Hungwú (A. D. 1375), freshes occurred and famine followed; at the end of the year, the distressed were assisted, and in the following year, the land taxes in four departments of this region were remitted, and in the next year, one shik (about 170 lbs. av.) of grain was supplied to each house- hold which had suffered. In the first year of Yungloh (1404), famine prevailed; and the next year the Board of Revenue memorial- ized that as Shanghái and Hwating districts were flooded, the taxes on the low lands might be taken in pieces of manufactured silk in lieu of grain.-During the following spring, grain was again furnish- ed, and the excise cu salt was not collected, and in the autumn, the taxes on all the flooded lands were remitted. Aid was also granted the next year.
In the seventh year of Siuenteb (1432), an inspector-general named Wang Lái Ememorialized that he had inspected the damages by floods, upon which the land taxes and imposts were dis pensed with.
In the fifth year of Chingtung (1440) in consequence of
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