This memorial takes up the whole of the Gazette for the 26th and 27th November, and gives the result of the Viceroy's vestigation of certain grave charges against the Magistrate of Lichany hsien in Anhui.
'A petty lawsuit was broug's' before the magistrate in April 1891, in which a clerk in his own yamen, named Chang Hsien-yi, was accuse! of stirring up litigation be: tween the members of a certain family over the family property. Chang Hsien-yi was tortured to death in the course of the trial, and his family brought " complaint against the magistrate. The magistrate, tond himself of his embarrassment, recused one of the family, Chang Ch'ang-yuxn, of trying to set fir to his yamen, and sent one of his runners, Hsii Yung, to arrest him. si Yung could not catch him, hut secured his on Cheng Sheng-hsiang. Chang Sheng-hsiang's wife in despair jumped into a river and though she was rescued she died fiom the effects. Cheng Sheng-hsiang managed to escape from Hsit Yung en route to prison and the magistrate, enraged with Hu Yung, had him put in the cage, where he died.
The magistrate, Yang P'ei-lin, has now been sentenced to banishment to the New Dominion there to be treated as x camp flower. A civilian would have been linble for similar offences to one hundred blows with the heavy bamboo and banishment to a distance of 3,011, Rescript.—Let it be as proposed and It the Board take note.
28th November.
Hsii Ch'éng-vit is appointed Sub-Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.