(2) According to a memorial presented by the Governor of Yunnan, some time ago, a Provincial Graduate of Halo in, named Cheng Te-pin, was charg with having assembled a crowd and beaten and robbed one T'ao Jung. As the explanation given by the defendant was not satisfactory, permission was obtained from the throne to strip him temporarily of his literary rank and examine him as an ordinary person, After that the true facts of the case were elicited. It appears that the graduate was manager of a salt shop and excise officer for the surrounding district, One day a number of horses were carrying salt belonging to the complainant, T'ao Jung, and licensed for sale in another part of the country. The man in charge of one of the horses made a mistake in the road and entered the district which was under the supervision of the graduate. Some of the latter's servants, thinking thatthe man was trying to smogglo, and his foes, but also the other horses went in pursuit, and seized not only him
which had not crossed the district boundary. The authorities weresatistied thatthe charge of robbery and violence was unfounded, and further that the men who seized the salt had not intentionally been permitted to pass beyond the district frontier. It is therefore requested by the Memorialist that Cheng Te-pin may be restored to his rank of literary graduate. Granted.
AN OFFICIAL ASSAULTED BY ANOTHER, November 28h.—The Governor of Shantung reports the sentences ho has in a case of quarreling and fighting between Tuate (Chil-jen) of Tiugt's0 Hsien, "Chao.
sons of official rank. A military gra-Chen-kuo by name, sold a piece of land to a-small official, Tseng Haien-chen. Not being able to obtain payment he brought an action for the money due. The case was heard by the Taotai, and judgment given.
ut ill-feeling still rankled in the creditor's 3 and happy one day to pass by the other man's door, he began to abuse bim in unmeasured terms. The
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