Sune Ist (1) A. Rescript issued upon a Memorial from Liu Kw'n-yih, Governor of Kiangei, forwarding explanations re-District Magistrate of Sin-kien to setd in ding the failure e part of th Yeturns of the townships and tythings in which the land revenue shewed a deficiency Inst year in consequence of a bad harvest. The Magistrate's excuse, viz., pressure. of business, is deemed insufficient, and he li rided over to the Hoard for determina-stion of a penalty. The Governor is also to: be subjected to a penalty for his'remissness in not exposing the Magistrate's want of promptitude until called upon for aroport. With regard to the regulations in force in Kiangsi for the collection of the land and grain revenue, inasmuch [according to the Governor's statement] -there is nothing in the system that is at variance with the rules of the Board of Revenue, its working is to continue under stringent watchfulness, and no approach {to unauthorized excess of levy is to be A Rescript is issued in reply to a memorial from the Governor General Tso Tsung-Vang, who has dehouiced for oppressive conduct a Secretary of the Colonial office (Li Fan Yuan), while stationed at Ning-hia, the offending functionary being forthwith stripped of his official position, and handed over to the Colonial Office, for investigation into the case.
(3) The Superintendent of the Imperial Manufacturing Department at Hang-chow represents the difficulties he labours under, in the way of supplying piece goods and the annual quota of silks and satins for the Palace, in_ the absence of any funds at his disposal. On the 15th January he received a despatch from the Household to the effect that the stock of silks, satins, and cotton or linen piece goods, is below the amount actually required for use, and that the Imperial sanction' had been given to the proposal that the Superintendents of the three Manufacturing Departments (ang-chow, Soo-chow, and Nanking) should be called upon to furnish an additional supply, the funds for which they should devise means for providing. The Superintendent observes ope that, as stated in a previous Memorial, it was heretofore the practice to furnish the supplies of silks and other textile fabrics and porcelain for Palace use through indents upon the various provincial governments and Imperial manufactories, but that since the outbreak of the rebellion the regular transmission of such supplies has been interrupted, absolute requirements being met from time to time as was most feasible. Since the restoration of peace, and the introduction of the system of issuing funds from the Fistories, not more than 20 or 30 per cent. rovineial treasuries to the Imperial manu-
of the proper amount of manufactures has inability of the treasuries to pay over the been produced for delivery, owing to the
whole of the monies for which they were liable, In the case of the Hangchow manufactory, all that has been received since the discontinuance of the Customhouse revenue formerly raised there, has been an annual amount of 120,000 strings of cash from the likin revenue, the whole of which has been converted into silver and applied to the purposes of manufacture. "his does not, suffice, however, to provide more than 4/10ths of the quantiyof textile fabrics annually required in corn formity with the regulations. The Superintendent has now placed himself in communication on the subject with' the Governor of Chekiang, whose reply on the subject he quotes, to the effect that in the impoverished state of the provincial. exchequer it has been impossible to do more than has been done already in the way of providing funds for silks, embroidery, d&c., the Imperial accession and for annual consumption; and the two officials unite in praying that for the present they be exempted from the duty of furnishing the additional supplies which the Household have called for.—Rescript: Let the request be acceded to, The Office concerned will take note.
June 2nd.—(1) A Decree. Of the newly passed graduates at the Doctorate examination, those who, on the supplementary Yevision, have been classified to the number of 56 as of the first degree, 80 of the second, and 199 of the third, shall all equally be admitted to the Palace examination (for honours, Han-lin degrees, &c.) The two individuals who are classed in the fourth degree, are to be subject to the penalty of exclusion from the Palace examinations for the present triennial period.
(2) The Prince of Kung and his colleagues of the Yamen of Foreign Affairs memorialize, stating that by the regulations hereafter sanctioned on the part of hi Majesty, the secretaries (Chang-king) employed are to be recommended for reward at the spring of every second year; and likewise with reference to the School of Languages (Tung Wen Kwan), the chief director and the teachers of that establishment are similarly to be recommended to favourable notice. On a representation being made in 1870 by the Board of Civil Office,' pointing out the advisability-of restricting the number of recommendations, the Prince and his colleagues meniorializéd proposing to limit the number of biennial recommendations to eighteen. 'The' last occasion on which the names of individuals were submitted for reward was in 1872, and another biennial period having now been reached, 18 secretaries of the Yamen, the director and two teachers of the School of Languages, and: eight secretaries from as certain military officials who the Privy Council doing duty at the Yamen, have served in connection with the above, are submitted in separate lists for marks of Lzmperal approbation, and 4)—Further Memorials from the Yamen of Foreign "Affairs, recommending the teachers Wang Chung-lin and Li Shén-Ian for honorary distinction. - The firat-named of the above is recommended: to be placed on the expectant list of District Magistrates, but to remain for ancther year in his present position as teacher before being attached to a provincial stof of expectants, Li Shénlan (who is. well-known to foreigners as-a proficient in European mathematics) is commended for his exertions as a mathematical teacher at the School, and is recommended. for promotion from his present titular grade. of chung-shu FAG to that of chwshe or Secretary available for a post under the Board of Revenue or Punishments, June.4.—(L-and 2) Decrees appointing Polun-pu $f {fy Fi Assistant "High Commissioner of Kobdo (a province in north-western Mongolia, adjoining Urumtsi and Tarbagatai),—and Ngeh-leh-ho-pu A at present Captain-General of Ch'a-har, to be General-in-chief at Uliasutai. The last-named official is to Proceed direct to his new post, without coming to Peking for an audience.. (Uliasutai is the contre of government, from which Kobdo, Urianghai, and other, provinces of Mongolia depend.
(8 and 4) Decrees appointing the 12th instant for the presentation of the newly graduated Han-lin, and for the Palace examination of the new tsin-se graduates, (6) The Governor of Honan reports the particulars elicited on a fresh trial of.a prisoner named Chu Kang-san, acoused of niurder, on whose behalf an appeal: has been lodged at Peking and, referred in the usual manner to the Provincial Government for re-examination. The circumstances are declared. to be'as follows In the summer of 1869, a man named Taio Chen-ho borrowed 96,000 cash, from Chu Kang-san, repayment of which was delayed, and when the lender pressed for the trans-for to himself of " parcel of land in discharg> of the debt, Tsiao Chen-ho lodged a false accusation against his creditor of pressing him for repayment of money lost at gambling. This intimid: Uhu Kang-san to such an extent that he con-rented), through the agency of friends, to let his claim stand over, but he bore grudge against Tsiao for his conduct in the matter. Shortly afterwards Tsiao, bein in further want of money, arranged thro certain middlemen to mortgage his land to one Chu Wan-hien, and the whole parly went the same evening to the wine-shop kept by prisoner's father, Chu Wei-wen, whom they asked to write out the deed: for them. Tsiao remained behind afer all his companions had gone to their. homes, and_ drunk. himself into an intoxicated condition with Chu Kang-san. The latter, under the influence. of his animosity against Tsiao, made up his mind "to murder him, and this purpose' he accomplished by putting opium into his liquor. Tsiao died immediately from the effect of the poison, and Chu, inducing an acquaintance of his to lend assistance, -carried -the body to the land of a man named Hwang Sin, where they abandoned it,. On discovery, of the corpse nex. worning, report was made to the authorities, and as Chu Kang-san was not to be found, his father
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