Boards of Revenue and Works to consider certain proposals for the improvement of the flow of the Yellow River submitted by an Under Secretary through the Board of Rites.
(2) A Decree directing that one Hsi Chen be censured for suggestions he has made in a Memorial to His Majesty. Hi prays that the blot on the name of Pao Ting, Vice President of a Board, who was dismissed, may be removed, and that his name may be recorded. for future employ-mont; also that Yi Yin-lin, Taotai of the Ching, Yi, Shih, Circuit in Hupeh, shall be given a metropolitan post instead of the one he now holds. Some time since Pao Ting was continually being advanced, as he was a man who had the courage of speech, until he was raised to the post of Vice President of a Board. He fail however, to keep his own propensities Paty, and himself fell into the errore [that roper check when charged with special
ho was so ready to denounce Hisdismissal, accordance with the sentence of the Board, was undoubtedly merited. The Qogradation, and blotting out their trans: ower and privilege of taking oticers from greasions by recording their names for employment, is one which rests with the Throne. On what ground, then, does Hsi Chen make this supplication for grace? Yi Yin-lin was selected for his post precisely that he might gain experience by practice. The Cvurt confers Appointments commensurate with the ability of its officers, and men are wanted both in the capital and the provinces. Hai Chen's application fore for the transfer of this officer is also an i propriety. Let him be censured forth wi (8) A Decree pledging a Memorial from the Supervising Censor Lou Yi-p'n, calling attention to the extortions practised by the underlings at the Ch'ung-wéu Gate of Peking, at which octroi is collected he begs for reforms to be instituted in particulars, and requests that thei dividuals who were responsible for th of a graduate coming up for the final examination may be duly punished. Stringent orders have repeatedly been issued that no oppressive action shall be rmitted at the Ch'ung-wen Gate, and it is the natural duty of the Superintendent to seo that this prohibition is properly observed. The Censor now asserts that of. Jate abuses have become as rife ever; and that all personal bag-whether it contains articles of or not, is detained, and difficulties raised with intent to extort money. Let the Superintendent at once ascertain if this be true, and exercise a more strict control in future over his i Students coming to Peking for examination have only to tender their official license for inspection, when they are at once allowed to proceed; no extortion allowed to be practised upon them. Officials and others travelling with their families should also be exempt from detention or trouble at the Gate, and instances of misconduct of the kind alluded to must be punished with the utmost severity let the Superintendent also take into consideration the Censor's suggestion that the Customs runners be provided with uniforms and a belt ticket, that the true may be distinguished from the false. With regard to the Censor's statement that Chao Kuang-ti, a graduate from Chekiang, on his entry into the capital by way of the Nan Hsi Gate was set upon by a number of people who fleeced him to such an fit is) the. manttest duty of students coming up to Peking for examination to be specially observant of regulations. Having provided himself with the forms upon which to write his how comes it that he only reached the papers, (which ae issued in Peking only) capital on the day that the names wer led? His failure to enter the Examination Hall was of his own creating. As far as the extortion is concerned, the Suporintendent will make enquiries, May 8th.—(1) A Decroo directing that Wen Shou, the high officer whose duty it was to offer the objects of sacrifice at the recent service held at the Imperial Aucestral Irmple, to be committed to the Board for the determination of a penalty. He has been denounced by the Censor Ch'én Chéi-t'ai, who asks that a slight correction may be administered to him for his failure to carry out the proscribed form of core-monial.
(2) Memorial from Teo Teung-t'a porting his return to Nanking after a general tour of inspoction..of the river works, for the fartheranco of irriga other purposes, within in his jurisdiction, He left Nanking on the 3ed of March, and made a tour of the following Departments and Districts: Shang-yuan, Tan-t'u, ig-yin, Ching-chiang, Paon-ch'tian, T'ai-chow, "Fa-kao, "ung 'Yi-ch'éng, Chiang-tu, Chow, Tung-tai, Yéurch'éng, 'Kao-yn, ud Pao-ying. "On the 26th' of March ho visited the works at Chu-chia Shan, and returned to Nanking, where he remained nine days attending' to arrears of work, and recruiting hia strength for a second expedition. On the 4th of April ho again left Nanking, and after visiting the works at the Chh-shan Hu, he returned on the 6th by way of the San-ch'a Ho and T'ang-cho Men to Nanking. The Memorialist then proceeds, in flowery language, to dilate on the blessing that water supplies have boon upon agriculture, and the necessity that they should be effciently maintained as a precaution against drought or flood. The subject was one he took up his Present post, but he was to which he turned his attention directly checked in his designs by want of funds, These were however finally raised by a tax upon the salt hongs, the amounts realised being forwarded to the two provincial Commissioners for deposit. When the funds were raised, orders were given for work to be commenced in the Departs ts and Districts along the Groat River, either by the authorities, or by the people where they ware in a position to do so, or in some cases, by the joint efforts of both. At every place he visited along his line of. cense, the people, young and old, knee! route tables were erasted for burning, ny/ in adoration on either bank, whi of tongues proclaimed in nes 0 happy harvest prospects in Store for them. As far as the eye could reach the country was bright with the verdure of beans or of wheat, whilst those who were preparing the soil for rice were shouting to their oxen as they ploughed the land; for it was just the busy time of spring. Rows of young mulberry and elm trees were to be seen on every hand, and the willows had burat out into pendent ropes of green, pro: claiming the advance of spring. As his boat progressed through the water, smooth aa a mirror, amidst their amiling surrounds
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