Pai Hong, the Junior Vice President of the Board of War, asks for leave to vacate his post on the ground of ill-health, and mission is hereby accorded to him to jo 60, Shouch'ang is appointed Commissioner of the office of Transmission.
BLOCK IX PROMOTION 18 KAN, Yang Ch'ang-chan aske that for a period of two years at least no further appointments be made for expectant service in Kansu of candidates who have purchased official rank. The numbers already waiting for promotion greatly exceed the require: ments of the public service and by long waiting it very often happens that the discontented create disturbances and make themselves objectionable in other ways. Let the Board of Civil Office consider and Lith July.
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