The Censor Liu Lung-hsiang complains that appointments to fill vacancies in the Board of Civil Office and Grand Secretariat ate constantly made out of turn, from motives the reverse of incorrupt. Thus in the case of the recent vacancy aS assistant reader in the Grand Secretariat, it was more than 140 days before the newly-appointed officer was presented in audience, a state of things plainly open te numerous objections His Majesty accordingly now desires the Board of Civil Ottice to furnish an explanation on the subject.
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