A Decree, Not long ago We received a memorial from the Censor Wen-vii in in which he denounced T'o-ko-tuan, the Military Governor of Uliasutai, for having exacted illegal fees from the postal stations and generally harassing the country while on the way to take up his appointment. We commanded K'uei-pin to investigate these charges, and very shortly afterwards We received a report from 'I'o-k'o-tuan, himself admitting their truth and asking that he should be handed over to the Board. for punishment. K'uei-pin found that Chi-tung, one of the officers attached to the accused General, had been guilty of accepting money from the authorities in charge of the post roads, snd he was directed to have both this man and a domestic servant, named Ch'én-yn, rigorously examined. From the report now submitted by K'u it appears that there is undoubted evidence of the extortion and oppression practised by T'o-k'o-t'nan, who not only received presents of money and goods from the various stations, but allowed his subordinates to enrich themselves by passing goods for other people free of duty and by exacting the services of men and animals to which they were not entitled. T'o-k'o-tuan has proved himself entirely unworthy of holding a position of trust and it is our pleasure that he should be instantly degraded and should be called upon to restore either to the Government or to its rightful owner all the plunder that came into his possession. Let Chi-tung be sent into banishment in Turkestan and let all the servants of the late Governor who abetted their master in his wrongdoing be placed upon their trial and severely punished.
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