Force Moniiily'aliowauce to the force of Sung Ch'tian, at Tls. 1,200 per; mensem 14,400 Supple: y gral 2,500 per mensem to the same force 30,000
Total... Tis, 349,400
This sum has to be furnished from the sixty per cent. of foreign customs duties. In addition to the above, the Canton Customs is further called upon to furnish the following sums which have been advanced by the Board of Revenue Yo the cavalry force of Ching Lien (To be repaid from the si per cent. of foreign duti a Repayments on Fuhkien loan (to be drawn from the 40 per cent. of foreign duties) 24,000 Share of dete: by the Board of Revenue (from the sixty per cent. of foreign duties)...120,000
Share of refund on grants to Chin Shun.
30,000
hold and Privy Purse Subsidy forth Imperial Hi 300,000
Total... Ts. 524,000
On the present occasion Tls. 261,720 have been remitted in bills.
(4) Memorial from the Governor of OW'ahar. The memorial nformed by the officer in charge of the military post at Kalgan that certain officials working out sentences of banishment at station number ning have brought to hisnoticethe admirable conduct of one Yang Lien-k's, son of Yang Lan, a banished official, who has Intely died on the station. Yang Lien-k'é, having heard that his father was in bad health, came up alone last summer from his home, a long distance off, to tend him. Ho arrived to find his father ill and in need of careful, nursing, and he nursed his father with stich assiduity that he did not even divest himself of his clothes. His father grew worse, however, instead of better, and he then cut flesh from his arm and mixed it with medicine. The attempt was fruitless and the father died. His fellow-exiles, touched with the Glial piety displayed by the son, thought that his merits should be made known in the proper quarter in the hope that they might obtain a mark of Imperial recognition.—Granted by Rescript.
November 24th.—(1) A decree acknowledging receipt of a memorial from the Prince of Li and other high officers charged with the conveyance of the Imperial Portrait, Veritable Record, and other relics of the reign of the Emperor T'ung Chih to Moukden, announcing the completion of their mission, His Majesty records, his satisfaction at the manner in which this duty has been performed, and directs that the high officers to whose efforts the successful accomnp! is due shall be hai for the determination of marks of distinetion. The Mancha and Chinese officers who accompanied the cortege are also to receive marks of approbation, and each soldier is to be given half. month's pay.
Pay is to.be given to every military officer and soldiers serving in Poking, in accord. ance with precedent.
(8) A similar donation of two months' pay is granted to the Imperial clansmen in Peking, as well as to the widows and orphans of glore and Imperial clansmen.
(4 Wo Ch'ang-ching YQ $3 BS is appointed Admiral. of Kuangtung, "and fuang Shao-chun is appointed' Commander-in-chief of Chekiang.
Li Han-chang, Governor-General of the Hukuang Provinces, requests that title of Yin Ohi Yi, which has been assumed in error, may be restored to the right individual.' The following are the circumstances under which the applic is made. Lin Yung-ch'iin was a connection of a widow called Lin, nee 'Pung. Lin Yung-ch'in's father,' who was called Lin Pivg-yuan, volunteered asa "brave" in the year 1859 and was no more heard of. The widow Lin's son Lin Ping-yuan,, where name was originally Lin Keng-chieh, changed it to Ping-yuan on volunteering as a brave, and the mistake arose from the fact of these two names being identical. In the year 1865, the second Lin Ping-yuan serv board a vessel in the squadron of the Admiral of the Chinkinng division, was killed during an action in the Tien-men district in the year 1865, His bod, was recovered by one Lin Chao-fa, anc sent back to the widow for burial, and his death having been reported to the Throne, the hereditary title of Yin Oi Yii was bestowed upon him, Instructions to that effect having been sent to the District Magistrate, the fact was dul advertised by him. Shortly afterwards, o Lin Mei-p'u, a member of the family of the Lin Yung-Ch'tin above-mentioned, having seen the notice announcing the death of Lin Ping-yuan, jumped to the erroneous conclusion that the deceased was the father of Lin Yung-eh'lin, or the original Lin Ping-yuan, and accordingly informed the son of the fact, In the year 1870, this same Lin Mei-p'u members of the fami documents attesting the individuality of Lin Yung-ch'tin, and applied to the Magistrate to obtain the title that had been conferred on the Lin Ping-yuan who was Killed in action, 'The usual formalities were gone through, and a decree was obtained settling the title upon Lin Yungch'tin, 'The widow Lin, the mother of the actual Lin Ping-vian, who had died, being a simple old' country-woman, and her grandson, a child of tender years, knew nothing about the title which had been granted, or in what manner it had been dit of, and it was not until Lin Chao-fa, who had recovered her son's body, returned in 1877 and discovered that' her son and Lin Yung-ch'tin's father bore the same name, that it was found out that a mistake had been made. The widow at once jumped to the conclusion that her grandson ad been intentionally defrauded of the title, and complained to the Magistrate, The case was gone into, and the story as detailed above was substantiated by evidence, which caused the wrongful holder of thetitletoadmithismistake. Hodeclared, however, that he had no intention of acting ina fraudulent manner, and prayed that the title might be restored to the rightful owner. The memorialist has accordingly to request that this may be done. Lin Yung-ch'tin will be called upon to refund the pay he has drawn as holder of this title, but as he was not guilty of intentional fraud, no penalty has been inflicted upon him.
November 25th.—(1) The Governor of Chekiang reports the loss at sen on the 26th of October of a junk laden with shipbuilding materials for the sub-Prefecture of Chin-chow in Feng-tien Fu, The vessel
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