(1) The Censor Ch'en Ch'i-chang memo-realises to the effect that it is now the bad habit of the Viceroys and Governors of provinees to be constantly interchanging substantive magistrates from one post to another. This is obviously done to plice their own protigés in the most Femunerstive districts to. the detriment of the men who bare been appointed thereto but are compelled give up their posts to the favourites of their superior viticers who happen to have been appointed from Peking to p-orer posts. As it i wssible to detect and expose favouritism, we must warn our Viceroys and Governors that in order to ensure good Iveal government it is most important that the district magistrates shall be given plenty of me to get acquainted with" the places and the people over whom they have been placed. Now if these local officials are liable to be constantly compelled to interchange with each other it goes without saying that the people will suffer through having officials who are ignorant of their local wants, customs, and wishes. To prevent this evil we must now command our Viceroys, etc., to refrain from continuing the practice complained of 2) Feng Wen-vii is appointed Junior Supervisor of Instruction to the Heir As there is no Heir Apparent only a sinecure and given only to persons of high literary talents.—
(3) Appomting a number of expectant officials to the metropolitan and provincial administrations.
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