As the Prefect of Tientsin, Chang kuang tsao, and the magistrate, Liu chieh, took no efficient measures to prevent the riots which occurred in that city between the people and the Christians, and also failed to arrest the offenders with due promptitude, we hiad already issued our Imperial man" date, ordaining the degradation of these officers, and their transmission to the Criminal Board to receive the punishment due for their offences. Afterwards Tsong-kayo-fan and others took the deposition of these degraded officers and sent them in custody to the above-mentioned Board. The Board has now forwarded a memorial to the effect that it has sentenced these prisoners to the most severe punishment prescribed by the statute in cases where the local civil officials are unable to suppress rioters and protect orderly persons, iz.: to redeem their faults by an energetic discharge of their duties at a place of banishment on the frontiers. Also the Board, on account of the extreme gravity of the case, request our instructions as to the place of banishment, and the nature of the duties to be' performed. The circumstances of the case are consider. ably aggravated because, in the first place, it was in consequence of the failure of the Prefect and Magistrate—the officials responsible for the peace of the locality—to-take efficient measures for the repression of the riotous crowd at Tientsin, that the villains had the opportunity of Killing a num-bor of poop by fire and siverd; and again, they failed afterwards to effect the arrest of the offenders with due promptitude. Moreover, after an Imperial mandate had been issued ordaining that these degraded officials should be handed over to the Criminal Board for punishment, Chan-kwang-tsao had the audacity to flee to Shunte and Liu-chieh to Myun, in which places they lingered, in utter defiance of the law. Wherefore, for the sake of making a public example, we hereby order that these offend ders undergo the most severe sentence prescribed by the law, viz, banishment to the Military Settlement on the Amur river, where they shall redeem their offences by an energetic discharge of their duties.
Now the people of Tientsin, when their us were aroused by suspicions, instead of conforming to the repressive measures. taken by the officials, straightway murdered upwards of twenty persons; and, more brutal still, killed the Sisters of Mercy in a barbarous manner; wherefore Tseng-kwo-fan has now arrested and tried the offend ders, and has passed upon them, in advance, in accordance with the respective measures of their guilt, viz: Fung, the lame," and fourteen others to capital punishment, and Wangwoo the small aval" and twenty others to different classes of banishment.
Seeing that the guilt of these men is undoubted and the punishment well deserved, we order that, in accordance with the son: tence passed, Fung "the lame" and the others be immediately decapitated, and Wangwoo, the small awl" and others po respectively banished to the frontiers. After this severe example the officials all over the Empire must notify to the people that they must not create any disturbance, but Keep the peace and obey the law. Hereafter in questions between Chinese and foreigners the cases must. be settled equitably in accordance with the Treaties,
foreigners will alike live quietly in order Toauns up, a hope that: Chinese and that the tranquility of the country may be-
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