September 13: h.—(1) A Memorial fom the Governor-General of the Hukuang provinces and the Governor of Hupei reporting the final settlement of a Jong standing feud between two families in the Hau-yang District called respectively Hsiao and Chou. The attention of the Memorialists was specially directed to this matter by an Imperial Decree, issued in the early part of the year at the instance of the Censor Ch'en El and calling upon the Memorialists to take measures. to repress the continued fights between the two of thole tween the two families in question lay in the disputed possession of certain fishing right inherited by both parties over a luke in the District in barrels that og of one of the parties who four years
had Loan trespassing on water claimed by the other family, Phe Governor of Hue 1 directed the Magistrate at the time to into the cause of the dispute, and that ellicer laid down certain boundary limits which each family was to fish The ement was accepted by them and worked satisfactorily until the close of last year, when, the boundary mark having beow submerged in consequence of 1 rise in the water, some of the Chou family trespassed on the Hosino family's water, and they bevan to fight, one of the latter being killed in the atragglo, The murderer absconded, and the acting magistrate aving failed to effect his capture, wns denounced, Upon receipt of the decree above referred to, the Memorialist sent a special agent to ce-operate with the acting Magistrate in settling the cause of dispute, and they found that there was no other ground of quarrel between the two families Euan the murder of a member of one by the other, and this was to be set at rest by the arrest of the murderer. Meanwhile, the parties being satisfied with the boundary limits laid down for them some time ago, these were made more conspicuous by higher land-marks, and maps being drawn each family entered into a bond to remain within the limits therein assigned to them, (2) Chin Shun, the Governor of Ili, and Connnander-in Chief of Chinese Turkestan, that in the summer of Inst year 3,000 Khirgis families from thy north= eastern portion of Ili, under charge of chieftain, came with their touts and belo a tendered their allegian it in accordance witn the treaty recently concluded, distinctly told them that under this treaty they could be sent into Russian territory and become Russian subjects, or svtily upon Chinese territory and become Chinese subjee's, the choice being left entirely with them;'and, as has been reported to His Majesty, the Russian ities were communicated with on the would humbly gis, known as the Hei tous 'Hasaks', originally exmo under the control of the Assistant Guvernor at Tarbayatai, and he accordingly wrote Hai Lun, who holds that office, to send officers to take them over and lucite thet 5, but the Assistant Governor replied in dus course that he had uy ground upon whiten to settle them, These Khirgis being in a state of poverty, and having come to tender their allegiance, it seemed to the Memorialist inexpedient to place any obstacls in the way of their evidently sincere desire tu approach the confines of civilisation. Hy accordingly tuid them that they might, fur the tune being, pasture their flocks on the northern slopes of the Pototula range, placing them under the control ut the Commandant of the Uh'ahar forces, he being in the nearest proximity to them. By old custom, it has been the rule to appoint some chiefs of the Hasaks or Buruts ut Li who display any capacity for the optics, Ahalak'ochi (Coutroiters with buttons' of any grade betwoon the 2nd and Sth ranks and sincerity of their submission, and those in authority overthom having kept th tribe from disorderly acts, the Memuriali has sent for their chieftain, Akopayiko by and others, and rewarded them. It is his intention to confer upon all these individuals the title of Ahalakochi in order to strengthen their influence over the chieftain ade presents of tea and members of the tribe, and to the minor
umpanying the gift with an to confine their aspirations to ding of their fecks and to be careful to avoid getting into mischief, They one and all beat their heads upon the geonnd, and were land in their praises of the Lin: perial benevolence, their joy knowing no bounds. Seeing that their gratitude i manifestly sincere, the Memorialist ven
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