Chang Lien-kuei, Governor of Kuangsi, asks for the Imperial clemency to allow a correction to be made with reference to the surname of an official whose real surname is Chang (jg) Pting but who by a clerical error in the list of promotions recor mended recently to the Throne was wri ten Chang (3) P'ing. The said official distinguished himself in matters relating to the borders of the province and was recommended to the rank of deputy magistrate after he shall have filled the post of a police magistrate. The recommendation made was in the name of Chang (#4) Pting but as in the duplicate list his right surname of Chang GR) was given the Board of Civil Appointment have refused to sanction the second but proper surname. Me-monalist therefore asks as a special favour that the Throne shall command the proper Board to revise the clerical error which was no fault of the official in ion, but of a clerk belonging to mem 's staff.—Rescript; Let the Board of Cicil Appointment tuke note.
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