(with promise of Ti be raised by subscription.) Governor of Anhui seseeeee],000 (with grant from public funds of Tls. 10,000.) Financial Commissioner Anhui Acting Judge Tudgo of Kuangtung The Governor of Urumtsi Military Commander-in-Chief Do.
Financial Commissioner Yiiuuan...$1,000 Tu according his grateful appreciation of the valuable aid that had been afforded to suffering people by these charity able and public spirited officers, the Memorialist must leave it to His Majesty to decide whether or no the contributors of the larger sums, should receive any honorary marks of approbation. smaller donations given by the Fi and Judicial Commissioners, he will communicate with the high authority of the p: vince in which they are respectively serving as to the form in which their charity shall be recognised. By a Rescript appended to the Memorial the subscribers of the laryer amounts of Tls. 1,000 and upwards are to be committed to the Board for the bestowal of the highest marks of distinction, while those of smaller amounts are to be rewarded proportionatel; A Postscript Memorial from Li Hung-chang. In a list of officers in Ch'ao-chow Fa and other places whose names the Memorialist recently submitted to His Majesty for the bestowal of rewards for contributing to the Chihli famine fund, was that of Chang Ping-yun, a District Magistrate awaiting selection, whohe begged might be allowed to be retained in Kuang. tung for employment. In considering this and other recommendations the Board decided that Chang Ping-yun should be called upon to supplement his contribution by a further payment which would entitle him to be placed on the Kuangtung list. Orders were accordingly sent to him to fulfil this condition, but he replies that he has not the money to do so, and begs that his rewards may take the form of an appointment to the post of officer of inatructions. As th vices rendered by th officer in raising subscriptions are deser ing of some recognition, and he has no means of paying the additional sum required to place him in the class in which the Memorialist suggested he should be put, he begs to support the application of Chang Ping-yun for an appointment as officer of instruction.—Referred to the Board, December 2ist,—(1) A Decree. In conse-Hsiung Ching-lit some time since, followed nonce of the representations of the Censor
by the denunciation of Chang P'ei-lun, acting Vice-President of the Court of Censors, who attributed the finan bankruptey of the province of Kueichow to the scandalous avarice of Lin Chao-yiinn, the Governor, whom they denounced on various counts, we repeatedly called upon Tsu Yi ying to sazeriain the truth or the reverse of there charges and to report. He has now done so, and has submitted a true statement of the case to Us. We find that Lin Chao-yuan is endowed with a soft and yielding disposition and that he has been in the habit of trusting the management of official matters to the Grain Tuotai Sung Ch'ang, who acted as Financial Commissioner. In failing to break through the bouds of favouritism and friendship a time when the scarcity of funds in th exchequer necessitated the issue of mani with the strictest impartiality in order to balance income with expenditure, Lin Chao-yuan has been guilty of shortoumings for which no excuse can be found. We therefore command that Lin Chao-yuan and Sung-ch'ang be committed to the Board for the determinated of a Lo Ying-vii, expectant Taotai how, a man of boastful and tricky disposition, and in the conduct of special financial duties entrusted to him he was guilty of extreme waste and extra-valance; while the acting Tuotai of the Kuei Tung Circuit failed to maintain hi jurisdiction in the same flourishing condi tion as that which he found it, thereby giving rise to unfavourable comment. Wang. Yuan-ching, prefect of Kuei-yang, being related by marriage to the brother of the Governor of his province, has shown himself incapable of appreciating the obliga tion he was under to keep at a distance from his chief in order to avoid hostile remarks, The above officers, together with Tseng Yen-chuan, who was guilty of discreditable transactions in connection with Li i-hong, prefect of Nan-an Fa in the sale of patents of rank in Peking, and
Kiangsi, brother of Lin Chao-yuan, who was associated with the said Tseng in the sale of patents of rank, are hereby committed to the Board for the determina-ion of penalties commensurate with the shortcomings of which they have respectively been guilty.
(2) A Decree acknowledging receipt of a report from Ts'en Yii-ying, Governor-General of Yunnan and Kueichow, who had been ordered to investigate certain charges against the Literary Chancellor of the Inter province and his predecessor brought by the Censor Lin En-po. From the Governor General's report it _appoars that Sun Tsung-hsi, the present Literary Chancellor, took upon himself to lock up son of the District Magistrate of Ptubecause the allowance sent him for maintain ance during the time that he was holding an examination in An-shun Fu (in
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