May 29th,—(1) A Decree acknowledging the receipt of a list of the ex-officials in servitude on the military post roads, which ed by the Board of Revenue in obedience to command, that His Majesty might determine who of them should benefit by the Act of Amnesty which heralds the completion of the first decade of His Majesty's reign.
The Decree proceeds first to give a list of the ex-officials who are precluded from participation in this amnesty, the first name on the list being that of Chang P% lyn. Other prominent names on the list of those excluded from the Imperial bounty are those of Lit ing (Cay tainLeebuah), and Ho Ju-chang, late Direc-for of the Foochow Arsenal. Amor those rel are Pao Hong, late Financial Commissioner in Shansi, and Wang Ting-
Al an, late Taotai at Chi-ning at Shan: were both banished for their particip:
the fraud connected with the military expenditure in Yunnan.
(2) The Governor-General and Governor at Foochow report the arrival in the provincial capital of ten ship-wrecked Liu-chinan sailors, whose vessel had been blown out of her course while on a voyage from Na-pa Fu in Liuchiu to some place in the archipelago, and brought up at P'ing.
ug in the Fuhkien province. Four the others remaining on boa their junk, in which they sailed round to Foochow as toon a2 the wind permitted." The usual grants of money ai 8 will be made to the men, feasible, be sout back in their own boat, May 30th,—(1) A further series of State 0 prayers for rain is announced for the 1s! prox. in which His Majesty will take a part, the rain which fell on the 29th being insufficient in quantity.
The acting Governor of Shansi some further reductions he propos: effect in the expenditure of the province by amalgamating certain offices and depart These efforts at retrenchment are to an Imperixl Decree, is vincial high authorities to give their attention to a suggestion from one Wu, a provincial graduate, that by the abolition of special chu or bureaux and tax stations reductions in the Government expenditure could be effected.
he Memorialist commences by ex or bureaux, established vided into two classes, those which are maintained by money which has to be accounted for to the Board of Revenue, and those which are mained by local endowments. With the latter, among which may be included the house of detention for witnesses, the iron tribute contribution office, the book shops for the sale of cheap classical literature, the provincial topographical record office, and s0 forth, the Imperial revenue is practically not concerned, so that they are left out of consideration. The other establishments, auch as the record office, the military secretariat, military store department, tithing ofice, and' office of roorgani tion, ete. ate maintained by funds of which an account has to be rendered. The total cost of their maintenance used to be some Tis, 57,000 a year, but it was reduced last year to Th, which is the lowest possible estimate camps with efficiency, Further reduction can only be made by amalgamating departments and placing under charge of one officer which he states was due to unjust accusations against him.
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June 2nd—(1) A. long explanatory I from the Governor-General in with reference to a set of rules in jer which permanent garrisons are to be re-established in Kans in place of irregular troops, and to one of which the Board of War objected that the proposal to form a dismounted cavalry corps was a misnomer. The Memorialist since the rebellion the itary force of Kai and those that did exist, whether cavalry, infantry, or garrison regiments the same monthly pay per man, viz: one tael has iven for the last seven years, the rence between the cavalry and oldier being that the former gets f grain more than the latter, that only the non-commissioned officers of the cavalry regiments are mounted, and justifies the arrangements he has ade as being the bet possible with the ited funds at his disposal. Ho inenmentally that the military force eposes to maintain in Kansu ists of Eightoon Banners of infantry and Eight Banners of cavalry at an annual expenditure of Tls. 830,
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