The Board of Revenue and Tsungli Yamen in a joint memorial recently called the attention of His Majesty to the extremely faulty regulations drawn up by the Governor for the working of coal mines in that island under private management and requested that orders should be given for the cessation of further operations. 'The Governor of Formosa was accordingly commanded by special decree to reconsider his arrangements. He thereupon framed a new scheme, and, without first submitting it to the 'Throne' for sanction, recommenced operations un his own responsibility. This is Majesty characterised as being something more than an ordinary inadvertence, and ordered the Governor to be committed to the Board for the determination of a fitting penalty. The president of the Board of Civil Office and his colleagues now announce their decision in the above matter. The law, they state, provides that Aisobellience toan Imperial Edict is punishable with 100 blows, and in the case of an oticer of Government when the offence is of a private and personal nature, by degradation and dismissal from the service. This therefore is the sentence memorialists propose should be passed on the Governor of formosa for the above stated offence.—Rescript already published.
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