The members of the Grand Council have received the verbal commands of His Majesty that Shen En-chia, Senior Secretary in the Board of War, and expect= ant of office as Prefect, who is engaged itt compiling a history of the Mahoumedan rebellion, is for the present not to be selected for office by the Board of Civil Service.
OFFICERS IN KUANGTUNG COMMENDED, A decree in answer to a Memorial from Han-chang, commending the services of a number of officials in the province of Kuangtung. His Majesty commands that the present decree be comninicated to them in token of the Imperial approbation, and that they be enjoined to exercise their functions with an increased degree of care and diligence, aiming to become worthy officers of the government, and so furthering the benevolent intentions of their sovereign.
OFFICERS IN KUANGTUNG CANMIERED, A decree in answer to a second memorial from the same high otticial denouncing number of his territorial subordinates. The magistrate of Tuugkwin in the Canton province is represented as being feeble and commonplace, besides being addicted to the vice of opium-smoking. Let him be removed from office without deprivation of rank. The nmgistrate of Ch'aozang is man of fixed ideas and deficient im his
(unacceptable to the people. Let him vacate judicial capacity, and has made himself his present post and be provided with some other appointment. in the province, The magistrate of Hop'u is a man of no experience and ill-informed, and lacks ability im judicial matters. His literary attainments being rather good, let' him be ranted an appointment in the educational department. With regard to the rest let action be taken as proposed.
'THEFT OF A MAGISTRATE'S SEAL OF OFFICE.
The Governor of Shantung submits an application on behalf of Ch'eng Jen-chun, formerly magistrate of the Ch'ang-shan district, praying for a remission of the penalties incurred by him under the fellowing circumstances. During his tenure of office the magistrate had shown himself yo energetic in the suppression of crime throughout his district that he became obnoxious to certain members of the criminal class, who determined in revenge to steal his seal of office. This design they according] carried into effect during the night of the 16th December, 1887, whilst the magistrate was temporarily absent on duty, with the result that he was denounced and ordered to be cashiered, being however retained at his post to assist in eflecting within " given time the recovery of the missing seal, and capture of the thieves. By the 19th of the following month the magistrate had succeeded in discovering where the Jatter were in hiding, and at once proceeded to their arrest. "Finding themselves hotly pursued they made off and effected their escape, throwing away the seal, which was thus recovered and subsequently transmitted to the Board of Ceremonies to be cancelled. Having failed to effect the capture of the thieves—which was most important in order to ascertain whether the magistrate was reamered from his post, they had made any use of the seal or not—
and a deputy appointed in his place, he himself remaining as before to assist in discovering the parties implicated. In
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