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accounts published in the Peking Gazette,' it would appear that there are almost constant deficits, which the governors and high officers of provinces must make good by loans or extraordinary taxation.
The amount of land-tax not paid in money is chiefly discharged in rice, wheat, and pulse, which is kept by the government in immense granaries in the suburbs of Peking and Tung-chow.
The revenues of the various provinces of the empire were stated as follows in the official report of 1844-
Provinces
Provincial Treasury
Sent to the Capital
Money taels
Shih rice
Money taels
Chih-le,...
1,939,941
1,180,514
Keang-800,
2,564,728
1,431,273
1,471,543
Gan-hwuy,..
1,194,914
3,274,583
Keang-si,........
1,602,431
795,063
795,224
Che-Keang,.
2,287,346
678,320
907,905
Foo-Keen,....
1,035,290
309,380
Hoo-Pih,.......
776,173
96,934
365,741
Hunan,....
944,132
96,314
280,192
Honan.......
2,441,110
221,342
658,923
Shan-tung,..
2,730,736
353,963
743,532
Shan-se,.
2,702,285
898,081
Shen-se,
1,344.548
306,121
Kan-suh,
Sze-Conen,
182.644
218,550
133,061
306.366
24,271
Kwang-tung,
719,370
542,601
Kwang-si,.
278,559
113.725
Yun-Nan,
188.927
227,626
87,852
Kwei-Choo,.
53,346
27,056
Totals,...
23.313,146
4,119,385
12,120,407
Total in money. 35,430,552 taels,
The empire is divided into eighteen provinces, the area and population of which, according to the imperial census of 1812, is as follows:-
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Provinces
Provincial Capital
Distance from Peking
Area in English statute
Population
miles
in Lys*
Chih-le,
Shan-tung...
Peking...
58,949
27,900.871
Tse-nan-foo
800
65.104
28 958,764
Shan-se,
Honan,
Tae-yuen-foo.... 1,200
55,268
14 004,210
Kae-fung-foo..... 1,540
65,104
23,037,171
Keang-soo,..
Nanking....
2,400
37,843,501
Gan-hwuy,.
Gan-king-foo..... 2,700
92,661
34,168,059
Keang-si.
Nan-chang-foo... 2,850
72,176
30,426,999
Foo-keen,
Fuh-choo-foo..... 4,845
53,480
14,777,410
Che-Keang,.
Hang-choo-foo... 3,300
39,150
26,256,784
Hoo-Pih,.
Woo-chang-foo.. 3,155
37,370,098
Hunan,..
Chang-cha-foo... 4,550
144,700
18,652,507
Shen-se,
Se-gan-foo...... 2,650
10,207,256
154,008
Kan-suh,
Lan-choo-foo..... 4,040
15,193,135
Sze-Chuen,..
Ching-too-foo.... 5,700
166,800
21,435,678
Kwang-tung, or Canton,
Kwang-choo-foo
7,570
79,456
19,147,030
Kwang-si,.
Yun-Nan,
Kwei-Choo,...
Kwe-lin-foo....... 7,460 Yun-nan-foo....... 8,200 Kwei-yang-foo... 7,640
78,250
7,313 895
107,869
5,561,320
64.554
5,288,219
Total...
1,297,999
367,632.907
Lys-194 to a degree, or about one-third English mile each.
Digitized by
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