The Emperor hus issued strict orders to the Viceroy Li and the other high officers charged with the superintendence of the arrangements ex rote during the approaching visit to the Eastern Mausolea, to exercise a careful surveillance over the eunuchs and the members of the Imperial escort and see that they do not make the occasion a pretext for destroying the crops and fleecing the common people by their exactions. Any cases of extortion or of scamped work in the repair of the roads are to be reported to the Emperor direct. whose finding is to the following effect trusted to them.—Approved by rescript. against the thagisizate was tnt he The most important of the charges brought,
had by Imperial decree been postponed till Chang Yin-huan, Director of the Imperial legally levied taxes, the collection of which APPOINTMENTS, 29th March. the following year. This accusation originate Stud, (formerly Minister to the United ed in the fact that before this remission of, States, etc.,) is appointed a member of the taxation had been made public, certain land- Tsungli Yamen. holders had already paid their taxes tothe Liu Jui-chi, who was recently gazetted magistrate's clerks, who kept the money Treasurer of Fukien, is promoted to be themselves and issued no receipts for it. Governor of Shansi, the vacant appointment As soon, however, as this came to the know- being conferred on Liu Shu-tang. ledge of the magistrate he tock steps to AFFAIRS IN TIBET: APPROACH OF A RUSSIAN recover the amounts, which were subse-MISSION, quently duly paid in to the Provincial Ch'ang-keng, Imperial Residentin Tibet, Treasury. The Imperial Edict in question reports, in a postscript memorial, that sanctioned the postponement of taxation in ' seal of office has been sent to Lin, en route, certain cases, unless such taxes had been by the Assistant Resident, Sheng-t'ai, at already collected and paid into the treasury. present detailed for service on the Indian ''Those which the magistrate was thus ac- frontier. Memorialist has had to investigate cused of illegally levying had as a matter of dispute between the secular authorities of fact been already paid by the landowners, Tibet and the Chanjui aborigines on the and therefore could not come under the borders of Szechuan, but as soon as this is category of taxes which not having been disposed of, he will press forward so as to paid were to be temporarily remitted. All reach his post without further delay. A; the hand-tax receipts issued were duly report from the commissary in Anterior accounted for, and the accusation conse- Tibet states that a Russian called Ptiel-wuquently falls to the ground. With refer- ts'o-fu (Pevtsoff) will shortly arrive in the death of a man, memorialist finds that the ported that. the Nepalese are seeking to ence to the second charge of causing the country, and from Ulterior Tibet it is re-
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