The high authorities for the province of Hupeh propose an officer named Yun Tsu-i for the vacant post of Land Tax Intendant at Wu-ch'ang. The appointment, say the Memorialists, is a very important and busy one, as it is concerned with the collection of the land-tax, whether the same be paid in grain or in silver, and with the tra mission to Peking of the funds derived therefrom. It is therefore necessary that the officer selected be a man of both ability and experience. The Memorialists consider they have found such a person in Yun Tsu-i, who is an expectant Taotai on the Hupeh list. This gentleman is a native of Kiangsu and in his fifty-second year. Having obtained the grade of Licentiate, he competed successfully for a provin-he had been appointed to a province as Sub-prefect, he purchased the rank of Secretary to a Board, and while waiting for a post in Peking, he further purchased the rank of Prefect and was nominated to Hupeh. In 1874 for services connected with the transport by sea of the grain tribute in Kiangsu, lo was granted the rank of expectant Taotai, the promotion to take effect as sven as he received an actual appointment as Prefect. Another contribution on his part secured him this advancement without waiting, and he became an expectant Taotai on the Hupeh list in the year 1875. After his year's probation the Governor-General reported him as fit to take a busy po fe was presently employed in forwarding supplies to Teo Toung-tang for that officer's campaigns in the North-west; and in reward for the energy which he displayed in the performance of this task he was recommended for a button of the second class. In 1885, on account of his father's death, he went into mourning for the customary period of three years. Since then he has again been employed on the Hupeh staff. At various periods ko has held many acting appointments, having been in charge of the Ordnance' and Reorganisation Boards, the Likin and Salt Directorates and the Wuch'ang Intendaney. The long and varied experience which e tas thus enjoyed has placed him ahead of all other officials in the province of his own rank.—Referred to the Board of Civil Office.
5th and 6th February.
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