974 



CHINA 



(b) Share taken by each Flag in 1911. 



Table V. Chief Imports. 



The Maritime Customs. The revenue of the Maritime Customs was 4,789,234 in 1910 

 and 4,871,085 in 1911, the highest amount ever reached. 



On September 21, 1911 Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial 

 Maritime Customs since November 1863, died in England. He had left Peking in May 

 1908, and the post of Acting Inspector General was held for two years by Sir Robert 

 Bredon, Deputy Inspector General. Mr. F. A. Aglen was made Acting Inspector 

 General in April I9IO, and received the substantive appointment on October 25, 1911. 



Finance. The first attempt to prepare a statement of estimated revenue and expen- 

 diture was made by the Imperial Government for submission to the National Assembly in the 

 session of 1910-11. A Budget for 1912 (China Year Book, 1913) was prepared by the 

 Ministry of Finance in the autumn of 1911, but appears to have undergone revision before 

 being taken as a basis for provisional estimates by the Republican Ministry of Finance. 



The two Budgets (exchange being reckoned at 7.5 Kuping tacls to the l) are shown in 

 Table VII. 



