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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

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231 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
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231 Jneblve ai JI .berwont eu blow arǝgneb aveış Tebaer baa ezibrabnsda derit blvoila ow Jadd erolerenj -Ong Clinterso met bre VONSTILO Tevlta sdt mottow a dttw ¡eonevba reddwt s rot a9tvazem edad of beso zi bishnuda blog a to noldqobs edd gattwase of welv .sudut sið esu end dent two bedniog svar ajalisi’tomem efT - dates gnol oa 1e9d esi eroidoert stl bne Ised end to Tre sjuðiðadua od rustlib ed blow di dadt bedall to seddumo) Offt .ecolq att ni moldauimoneb Terido erit bebremost oais Istromem auoiverq at sonenti ad oo mioo novila eit as Cest sit to ITO LUBNIM:9jab .bsau Too Tovíta 93ml & Jeɗd bremuro ervisIed‡ SW Jand bom,lost gni'qu17 900 gnidalew dowita of LIsda 8 to 2. gnidgtew anios Tavite to aeiðiðnsup 9gisi -197/00 LAT9n92 101 bednik ed vale IIsda Iast gni' qu'X to asoviq Ilana sd ILada 19ft oalA 9au ai eɔmai Tsvlie ewq Basi to angeTaboo evit to bne sosu eno t OWS ONT „VONATIUS VIalbledda on evrea Iftw dɔidW add eltriw,ext1 088. sd Ilade bisaetots antoo Isvita .emit 088. sd Iity aso9iq tevila [Dama owd eid? This silver currency, except in so far as calcu- lations 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 Pe- king or the provinces, in all their Treasury transac- tions, 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 Prov- inces examine the conditions in their jurisdictions and devise means in conjunction with the Board of Fi- nance 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 trav- elling on the public service, and let the rates be published openly by proclamation so that the pecula- tions 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
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Jneblve ai JI .berwont eu blow arǝgneb aveış

Tebaer baa ezibrabnsda derit blvoila ow Jadd erolerenj

-Ong Clinterso met bre VONSTILO Tevlta sdt mottow

a dttw ¡eonevba reddwt s rot a9tvazem edad of beso

zi bishnuda blog a to noldqobs edd gattwase of welv

.sudut sið

esu end dent two bedniog svar ajalisi’tomem efT

- dates gnol oa 1e9d esi eroidoert stl bne Ised end to

Tre sjuðiðadua od rustlib ed blow di dadt bedall

to seddumo) Offt .ecolq att ni moldauimoneb Terido

erit bebremost oais Istromem auoiverq ♬ at sonenti

ad oo mioo novila eit as Cest sit to ITO LUBNIM:9jab

.bsau

Too Tovíta 93ml & Jeɗd bremuro ervisIed‡ SW

Jand bom,lost gni'qu17 900 gnidalew dowita of LIsda

8 to 2. gnidgtew anios Tavite to aeiðiðnsup 9gisi

-197/00 LAT9n92 101 bednik ed vale IIsda Iast gni' qu'X

to asoviq Ilana sd ILada 19ft oalA

9au ai eɔmai

Tsvlie ewq Basi to angeTaboo evit to bne sosu eno

t

OWS ONT „VONATIUS VIalbledda on evrea Iftw dɔidW

add eltriw,ext1 088. sd Ilade bisaetots antoo Isvita

.emit 088. sd Iity aso9iq tevila [Dama owd

eid?

This silver currency, except in so far as calcu-

lations 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 Pe-

king or the provinces, in all their Treasury transac-

tions, 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 Prov-

inces examine the conditions in their jurisdictions

and devise means in conjunction with the Board of Fi-

nance 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 trav-

elling on the public service, and let the rates be

published openly by proclamation so that the pecula-

tions 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

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