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Rh 5 and 6&mdash;Page 5&mdash;Statists differ as to the content of a Mow. Sir George Staunton estimated it at 1.000 square yards. At the Land office, Hongkong 1951 were fixed as the standard. In Shanghae, Six mows and a sixtieth constitute an acre. The usual land measure table runs.&mdash;

Taking the chih to be 12.587 inches, a square pú will measure 27.499636 square inches; this divided by 9, gives 3.0555 square yards; which multiplied by 240 pú gives 733.32 sq. yds. in a Chinese mau, equal to 6.61 mau to an English acre.

7&mdash;Page 5.&mdash;A good deal of erroneous statistic has been printed on this land tax point. The latest authority (Williams) says it ranges from 1 to 10 cents a mow, or from 1 to 66 cents an acre, according to the quality of the land and difference of tillage But there is a wide difference, it will be seen, between this and what is actually paid. From Gutzlaff's "China opened," one of the best works extant, we take the following.&mdash; LAND-TAX&mdash;TEEN-FOO.

The lands are divided into king and mow: 100 mow make a king; 240 square poo make a mow; and 5 chih, or covids, make a poo, (a chih is reckoned at 14 inches.) Thus, 6 Chinese mow make 1 English acre.

The grain is measured in the following manner:&mdash;6 suh make a kwei; 10 kwei a chaou; 10 chou a tsuy; 10 tsuy a chŏ; 10 chŏ a hŏ; a shing, or 31 cubic punts, 10 shing a