Oct, 24th-25ih,—(1-2) Decrees, awarding i of one tael of silver each to the in attendance (8) Wen-pin, Governor-General of the Grain Transport, memorializes, reporting the measures taken to guard the embankments of the Grand Canal against damage from the rise of waters during the summer flood season.
(4) Te'én Yii-ying, Acting -Governor-General of Yunnan and Kweichow, reports the following case of local disturbance the 23rd April last, a report was received from the Sub-Prefect of 'I's-long Ving (in P'u-urh Fu) to the effect that, on the 6th April, a complaint had been lodged with him by a literary graduate and certain others, accusing the officer in charge of the likin office of disregard of the national mourning by shaving his head in defiance of established rule. At the same moment with the receipt of the petition to this effect, a report came of a tumult having acc-wrod at the likin eration, and it was found tnat the officer in charge hind been wounded in eight places; whilst, on subsequent investigation, it proved that the literary graduate who had complained against him had led on a mob to the attack. On " summons being issued against him he pertinaciously set it at defiance. The error committed by the official Chu Yun-shen in shaving his head is found to have arisen from the following cause: A despatch was received on the 24th March from the Prefect of P'u-urh Fu, announcing the fact that, on the 12th January, His Majesty the Emperor had ascended on the Dragon, to be guest on high, whereupon a period of three days' mourning ceremonial in the Hall of Assembly was at once begun, terminating on March 26ih. Chu Yan. shen, after having taken part in the ca many, was told by a friend that the period of mourning would be over on the 27th day—meaning the twenty-seventh from the 24th March, which he mistook as referring to the 27th day of the 2nd moon (Grd April), and he consequently shaved his head on' the day following this date, His accuser was a person who had long borne him a grudge, and hence the ensue ing proceedings. "The decision pronounced by the Acting-Governor-General in this cate, after the parties have been brought to the provincial capital for trial, is, that the peccant official and his accuser are both previously to blame—the one for remissness in not informing self with due care as to the text of instruetions relating to the solemnities of the national mourning, and the other for collecting a mob to attack a public officer. A. rescript is solicited, stripping Chu Yiinshen of his rank, in order that he may be placed on trial,—Assented to by rescript.
Oct, 26th.—(Court Circular). Ch'éngtwen paid his respects on returning from offering sacrifice at the tombs of the Ming dynasty.
(1) A decree, awarding gratuities of one tael of silver to each of the chair-bearers and Iacqueys in attendance on the Imperial conveyances, (N.B, Their Majesties ro-ontered Peking yesterday evening).
(2) A decree, in answer to a request on the part of Wen-lin, Resident at Hami, i nto Ming-chun to re= Assistant-Resident, vices being highly valuable, notwithstanding that he has been placed in mow ing by the death of a parent. His appointment is converted from a substan tive into an "acting" tenure of office.
(8) Te'ung-shih, Acting Military Governor of Sheng-king, reports the settlement of a complaint which had been brought forward through the presentation of a supplication to his late Majesty by the roadside. It appears that, in the city of I-chow, twenty-two establishments were licensed by Government as public weighers, having the right of levying brokerage or weighing dues on all merchandize, out of which they paid their license-dues, In 1866 a complaint was raised by Chao Yung-ho, one of these licensees, and the person without using the licensed scales; and much correspondence ensued upon the matter, the practice being found to be one of long standing. In order to obviate further disputes, it has now been decided that the traders in question shall weigh merchandize themselves, but shall make use in doing so of the licensees? scales and pay dues for the same. This decision has been agreed to on all sides. The petitioner has been handed over to the Board of Punishments at Moukden, to be sentenced according to law, for the offence he cot mitted in presenting " supplication to His Majesty.
Oct. 27th.—(1) The Superintendents of Granaries report the delivery of the total amount of the year's supply of grain remitted from the provinces, whether by sea of by canal, forming an aggregate of 1,600,000 piculs. The whole of this has been lodged in the granaries, after passing the proper forms of scrutiny; and rewards are solicited on behalf of the officials who have distinguished themselves in the discharge of this duty.
(2) The Superintendents of the Granaries and the Givil Governor of Shun-tien Fu
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