Warden of Li Chou for insubordinate behaviour and unseemly proceedings la public court. 'The market at Li Chow having for some time been inundated with spurious cash,', proclamation was issued by the authorities prohibiting their use, and the trading classes agreed to a code of rules whereby a breach of the prohibition was to be punished. Towards the end of last year, it came to the ears of the Jail Warden that spurious cash were again making their appearance in considerable numbers, and he sent one of his servants, Chao Lien-ch'éng, with some constables, on a tour of inspection. They found small quantities of the counterfeit coin in two inns in the town. The proprietors offered to pay the fine imby the regulations for the support of an orphanage, but the servant intimated that he would have to take the instructions of his master before acting in the matter. Considering this to be a mere pretext for extorting money, the innkeepers brought the matter to the notice of the Taotai.
When the case came on for hearing, the jail warden, without waiting to inquire into its merits, assumed very lofty airs and created a great uproar in court by the unseemly numer in which he strove to shield his subordinate. When the oticers of the court attempted to apply torture, he even went so far as to strike and kick them, and in the end carried off his servant by fore Asaccheck upon such reckless conduct on the part of subordinates, it is asked that the jail warden, who has been temporarily removed from his post, may be pernumently stripped of his rank, The servant is not proved to have been guilty of any misconduct on the present occasion, but. as he is known to be " bad character he has been expelled from the dist The system of imposing a fine for the possession of spurious cash is considered objectionable as opening the door to great abuse, and it has been publicly notified that for the future bad cash found in circulation should be taken to the officials, who will pay their equivalent to the owners and have them destroyed.
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