Shih-tseng, the Vice-President of the Board of War, who is now over eighty years of age, requests that he may be handed over to the Board for the determination of a suitable penalty for being late in his attendance one morning recently at Court. He explains that the cause of his late arrival was due to his being seized with a pain in the stomach while on his way to the Palace.—Decree waiving the question of a penalty already published,
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