irecting the ler a proposal made by a Reader of the Han-lin Yuan that cottificates granting the minor degrees of kung sheng and chien sheng shall be given to contributors of money or grain to a certain amount in aid of the present distress in Shantung.
Heir Yung-i to inspect and report upon some supplementary repairs that are required to.the Mausolenin of the Emperor Yung Chang:
(8) A Decree acknowledging the receipt of a report from the Lieutenant Governor of Joh Ho announcing the results of the heavy and continuous rains during the latter half of the month of July. The descent of the mountain water" has carried away a large number of houses at Ying-shui Pa and other places, and the people hare nowhere to take shelter. The Deere, after deploring ao distressing a slate of things, directs the Lieutenant Goveror to consider with Li Hong-chang in what manner funds can be raised to meet the distress. Steps must also be taken to drain: off the water that has accumulated. lias a bearing upon the popular needs, and the unauthorised fabrication or destruction of cash is a serious infringement of the law that prohibits such practices, There is at Forge timber of lawless individuals engaged resent, in the vicinity of the capital, a
in the melting of Government cash, which they recast, and profit by the process. Such offences require prompt and severe treatment. The metropolitan executive hereby called upon to make rigorous search for offenders in this particular, and t punish them as the law demands. This, that due importance may be attached to the monetary system.
(6) A Decree acknowledging the receipt ofa Memorial from the Censor Wen Hai, who calls for the promotion of a higher standard of morality as a necessary preliminary to a higher standard of official capacity. The Decree calls upon all heads of departments, provincial or metropolitan, to abolish favoritism, and only to recommend those of their subordinates for promotion or employment or to be sent on special duty, whom they conscientiously consider best suited for such employment, on deserving of such promotion, The offering or receipt of presents on birthdays or fe rivals between subordinate officers and th chiefs, which is distinctly forbidden by law, is once more prohibited under any shape. or form, and the law Laid down in the reigns of Chia-ching and Ch'ien-lung that heads of departments in Peking were not allowed: to bond the knee on meeting their chiefs is enunciated afresh with strict injunctions that it be literally obeye (6) The Lieutenant Governor of Urumtsi requests His Majesty's sanction of the r moval of the small Manchu force at pro-sent stationed at Pa-li-kun, to Urumtsi, to be amalgamated with the Manchus of that place. "After the rebellion, search was made throughout the eight cities of the New Dominion for the remnant of the Bannermen who had fled from Urumtsi at the time of the rebel occupation. were there fed, lodged, view to making them efficient! thus reclaimed was not however large, as has been earlier reported, it was decided to transfer all the Bannermen from Guchén, Pa-li-k'an, and Turfan to Urumtsi, in order to have in this latter place a sufficient force to garrison it, Pacli-kun la notoriously barren and inhospitable spot, and the Mauch force suffered badly there after the breaking out of the rebellion, more having lost their lives than there is any record of. A succession of yeats of drought has added to the drawbacks of the place, and owing to the failure of the provinces to remit their grants in aid, it is little that Memorialist has been able to do to relieve the state of distress to which the remnant of the Bannermen that remain' there have been reduced. The price of high, and little is stored, we it is hard to get; while to add to the distress, the cattle plague broke out this year, and if there be any delay in the getting in of the seed consequent upon want of plough oxen, it will be hopoless for the autumn harvest. The rialist goes on to describe the condition of the town itself, half of the walls of which have fallen down, and the Yaméns and barracks surround the city like a hedge, the interior being almost waste of deserted: accommodation, too, is 60 or five families are obliged one roof. By the bannermen to Uramtsi, where the agricultural conditions of the country are so much more favourable, it will not be'a matter of difficulty to find rations for them, while the allotments of land they vacate at Pa-li-kun can assigned to the regular troops there, whose condition will thus be materially improved their absence, too, will relieve the ov crowding, and render the work of rear; sation easier, The Memorialist conclud
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