(2) The Governor of Shensi reports the sentence passed by him on a man convicted of having murdered two persons, the one in a brawl and the other with premeditation. The murderer was a day-labourer for hire named Chen Ta-lu. In the spring of 1877 he borrowed four bushels of maize from a neighbour called Chung Kuang-tsai, and gave " written promise to pay it back in a year with thirty-six per cent. interest, He repaid the debt at the proper time, and saked that his promissory note should be
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