(2) A Censor represents that, according to information which has reached hin, great dishonesty is practised by the oticers how in charge of the wood and charcoal departments in the lu perial Household. These coperments purchase firewood at the mte of Tls. 3 per thousand catties, with addition of 10 per cent. for waste, and charcoal at Tls. 7 per thousand catties with
ture under these heads auiounting to more an addition of 20 per cent., the total expen-that Tls. 100,000 per annum. The present chief clerks are said to cheat both the government and the tradesmen, and to appropriate the greater part of the wages the one hundred and twenty servants ein-ployed in their departments. The amount which they have amassed may be judged fron the smartness of their dress and uipages.—The Imperial Decree in reply tite Memorial was published previously Init the Censor was rebuked with much. severity for paying attention two triting matters which it was not his duty of scrutinize.
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