The Protect of Chen-yuan in Kueichow having been ordered to Peking for audience, the Governor asks that he should be retained in the province for the present and adduces the following reasons in support of his application. The district ruted by the Prefect closely a joins Ch'ing-hsi where the iron mines are being opened. His long ex: perience of the province makes the Protect a very competent superintendent of the rangements connected with the enterprise which could not well be suddenly entrusted to another.—Granted by Rescript.
APPLICATION FOR LEAVE OF ABSENCE BY THE
PRESIDENT OF THE CENSOKATE, Ch'i Shih-ch'ang, the President of the Censorate, states that his father, the late Grand Secretary, Ch'i Chun-tsao, has been dead for over twenty years and that i ime he has only been pay two visits to his grave, the last of which took place over ten years ago, His own eldest son is dead, and his only other son is too young to attend to family concerns. His other relatives in Shansi are all either too young or too stupid to be entrusted with the duty, He therefore applies for four months' leave of absence to enable him to repair the family cemetery, Decree previously issued,
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