1,841  i

1,980

Total

THE  INSPECTORATE  OF  CUSTOMS  363
I.  Revenue  Department.
1.  Indoor  Staff,  the  executive,  controlling  and
clerical  branch.
2.  Outdoor  Staff,  the  inspecting  and  preventive
branch.
3.  Coast  Staff,  the  preventive  cruiser  branch.
II.  Marine  Department.
1.  Engineers’  Staff,  for  construction  of  Lights,  etc.
2.  Harbors  Staff,  for  Coast  work  in  general  and
Harbor  work  at  Shanghai.
3.  Lights  Staff,  for  operation  of  Lights.
III.  Educational  Department.
1.  Tung  Wen  Kwan  at  Peking,  which  after
forty  years’  good  work  was  amalgamated
with  the  Imperial  University  in  1902.
2.  Tung  Wen  Kwan  at  Canton.
IV.  Postal  Department  (instituted  in  1896  as  a  branch
separate  from  the  Revenue  Department).
The  growth  of  the  Service  may  be  gauged  by  the  following
comparative  statement  of  the  numbers  in  1875  and  in  1906.

I.  Revenue  Department  :
1.  Foreign  Indoor  ..
2.  „  Outdoor  ..
3.  Coast  Staff
4.  Chinese  Clerical
5.  „  Non-clerical
II.  Marine  Department  :
1.  Engineers’  Staff
2.  Harbors  Staff
3.  Lights  Staff
4.  Chinese  employees
III.  Educational  Department  :
Staff
IV.  Postal  Department:
Control  and  Clerical  Staff
Non-clerical  Staff

Foreign.  Chinese.

1875.

1906.

126
203
19

9
H
43

145
282
802

188

Foreign.  Chinese.

343
754
ï  54

7
32
59

i
95

424  1,4171,345

672
950
2,858
[  310
267

2,388
3,190

10,635