By the regulations of the Board of Civil
ments as District Magistrates, who have Servieeofcers holding substantive appoint entered the service by competition, andliave subsequently been obliged to retire on account of mourning, are only eligible, on their return to duty for posts of the class t which their original appointment belonged, easy' or dificult' as the case may be. Under the same circumstances officers who have entered the service by purchase may be appointed to difficult and important posts, on payment by them of additional purchase-money.
This regulation, says the Censor Ho Fu-kun, works very unfairly in the case of Diatrict Magistrates who have entered the service after gaining the highest literary degrees, and who are thus qualified for appointments of either category. It very possibly happens that the first vacancy that occurs after they join the service, is one of the easy' class, and they consequently accept. it, not because they are incompetent to fill one of the difficalt class. When they return to duty on the expiration of their period of mourning they are no less qua-lifed than they were before for posts of the latter description, and both classes of appointments should be equally open to them as before. Otherwise they find themselves most invidious position, and by having to wait for an easy' post, have often the greatest difficulty in obtaining any appointment at all. However capable and experienced they may he, the moment they retire from office in mourning, they find themselves no better off than if they had left the service in disgrace.
Te seems therefore to memorialist that the present system requires modification, Graal betwuse olllcons who have entered so that some distinction may be plainly
the service by competition in the regular way, and those who belong to the purchase class; he accordingly begs that the question may be referred to the consideration of the Boartl.—Kescript already publish
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