The Acting Governor General of the Yiinkuei provinces submits an application on behalf of an expectant Prefect named Li Pi-ch'ang, previously degraded to the rank of Assistant Sub-Prefect, who was sent to Yiimnan and placed in charge of the Teleraph Department there on the recommendation of the Viceroy of Chili, by reason of hiskuowledyeofforeignafiairs. At the time when the Szechuan and Yunnan telegraph lines were being connected, his services were most valuable, In May 1887 he was sent_to enquire into some disturbances in the Pichich district, where the people were destroying the telegraph poles, and this commission he executed ina most satisfactory manner. In the following winter he was sent on an expedition against the Lohei tribe of aborigines, and for his services in this connection was recommended by the late Viceroy Ch'en Yiiying for re-instatement in his original rank without payment of the fees usual in such cases. To this, however, the Board of Civil Office objected, as the services had not been rendered in a military capacity. In
graph line from Peiset'ing in Kuangsi to Mengtsu in Yiinngn vid Pozai, the workmen sent from" Canton. were all attacked by malaria and were unable to complete the work. Li Pi-ch'ang, taking with him some artificers fromthe Yunnan telegraph department, undertook and carried out the work, For this he was again recommended by memorialist, but the Board has now once more refused the application on the same grounds as before, Memorialist submits, however, that under the circumstances Li Pi-ch'ang is fully entitled to be rewarded on the exception: meritorious services scale."—Reseript noted,
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