Some months ago two officials, a prefect and a magistrate, who had formerly been dismissed from the public service, subscribe ed, the one taels ten thousand, the other taels five thousand, to the Honan Charitable Relief Fund. The Governor therefore requested that the Emperor would allow them to be reinstated in their former positions, "Tu reply he received a despatch from the Board of Civil Office saying that a new regulation had been Gamed for such cases,
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