Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . t there is noground tax on them. As a matter of economy, we all greatly prefer tohold property by perpetual lease. The prices we havepaid for our lots would pay the annual rents accru-ing on them only from, four to seven years. The mission now holds by perpetual lease all itsproperty in Fuhchau, except the land in the lot Ioccupy. This we hope to get in a year or two, andthen we shall have all the land we shall need fordwelling houses for many years. The annexed schedule of pric
Life among the Chinese: with characteristic sketches and incidents of missionary operations and prospects in China . t there is noground tax on them. As a matter of economy, we all greatly prefer tohold property by perpetual lease. The prices we havepaid for our lots would pay the annual rents accru-ing on them only from, four to seven years. The mission now holds by perpetual lease all itsproperty in Fuhchau, except the land in the lot Ioccupy. This we hope to get in a year or two, andthen we shall have all the land we shall need fordwelling houses for many years. The annexed schedule of prices will indicate thevalue of land in Fuhchau at the time these lots werepurchased. It is necessary to add that recently theprice of lots suitable for foreign residence has largelyincreased: 1. For a very desirable building lot, situated justback of the premises I occupy, measuring about onehundred and twenty by two hundred and forty feet,and sufficient for two dwelling houses, the missionpaid six hundred dollars. 2. For a chapel lot situated on the main streetleading to the south gate of the city, and measuring. MISSION RESIDENCES. 169 about sixty-six by one hundred and forty-five feet,the mission paid four hundred dollars. 3. For the lot on which Dr. Wentworths housenow stands, measuring one hundred and twenty byone hundred and seventy feet, the mission paid threehundred and fifty dollars. 4. For the chapel lot just in front of the premisesI occupy, measuring sixty-two by one hundred andforty feet, the mission paid one hundred and fifty-four dollars fifteen cents. 5. For the lot on which Messrs. Russell & stands we are to pay three hundred and fiftydollars. This lot is two hundred and fifty feet deep,with a front of ninety feet, and a rear of forty. The first building fitted up by the mission in Fuh-chau for a place of residence was an old Chinesehouse, one story high, and surrounded by high house stood on the island called Changchau, the annual
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