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CHINA.
accounts published in the Peking Gazette, it would appear that there are almost constant deficits, which the governor 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:-
Sent to the Capital
Provinces
Provincial Treasury
Money taels
Shih rice
Money taels
Chih-le, ..
Keang-800,..
1,939,941
1,180.514
2,564,728
1,481,273
1,471,543
Gan-hwuy,
1,194,914
3,274,683
Keang-si,
1,602,431
795,063
795,224
Che-Keang,
2,287,346
678,320
907,905
Foo-Keen,.
1,055,290
309,380
Hoo-Pih,.
776,173
96,934
365,741
Hunan,.
944,432
94,314
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-Chuen
Kwang-tung
Kwang-si
182,644
218,550
133,061
306,366
24,271
719,370
542,601
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:-
Distance from
Provinces
Provincial Capital
Peking in Lys*
Area in English statute
Population
'miles
Chih-le.. Shan-tung
Peking.
58,949
27,900,871
Tse-nan-foo.
800
65,104
28,958,764
Shan-se.
Tae-yuen-foo.
1,200
55,268
14,004,210
Honan
Kae-fung-foo..
1,540
65,104
23,037,171
Keang-800
Nanking..
2,400
37,843,501
92,661
Gan-hwuy,
Gan-king-foo..
2,700
34.168,059
Keang.si
Foo-keen Che-Keang. Hoo-Pih. Hunan
Shen-se
Kan-suh
·
Nan-chang-foo.
2.850
72,176
30.426.999
Fuh-choo-foo...
4.845
53,480
14,777,410,
Hang-choo-choo..
3,300
39,150
26,256,784
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Woo-chung-foo..
3,155
37,370.098
Chang-chu-foo..
144,770
4,550
18,652,507
Se-gan-foo...
2,650
10.207.256'
154,008
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-si
Yun-Nan
Kwang-choo-foo
7,570
79,456
19.147,030,
Kwe-lin-foo.
7,460
78,250
7,313,895
Yun-nan-foo.
8,200
107,869
5,561,320
Kwei-Choo
Kwei-yang-foo..
7,610
64,554
5,258,219
Total...
1,297,999
367,632,907
Lys—194 to a degree, or about one-third English mile each.
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