(1) Kuei Chung, a Supervising Censor, and his colleagues report the capture by the gendarmes under them of the lea'ler of a band of desperate brigands who had been pillaging the country around Peking, arma in hand, and otherwise terrorizing the villages round about, and also eight others belonging to the said band. Let the said bandits be handed over to the Board of Punishments for trial and punishment. In consideration of the thorough manner in which the capture has been made—only one member of the band named Feng Ts'i having escaped—let_ the memorialists send up to us (after the Board of Punishments shall have concluded the trials) the mes of the officers and men, as well as the names of the gentry who form the Vigilance Committee of the section where the above gendarmes are posted, in order that adequate rewards may be' granted in recognition of their valuable services.
(2) Yen Ch'i (Manchu) is appointed Grain Intendant (Taotai) of Kuangtung rovinee vice Kue't Yuan promoted to the provincial Judgeship.
(8) With reference to the daring acts of robbery perpetrated for some time past in the porcelain godowns and deposits connected with the Imperial Household De~ partment, by which a considerable number of large and small valuable antique and Ein ware wore surreptitiously taken out present dynasty pieces of superfine porce-and sold to buyers at immense profit to the thieves, a decree concerning which had already been issued upon discovery of the thefts: we are now in receipt of a memorial from the Censor Wang P'éngyun declaring that he has heard that the Gh'ung-ku-shantang shop, dealers im antique wares, in' Peking, which had already been closed on the charge of having received the stolon goods, really belonged. to Lih Shan, one of the Comptrollers-General of the Imperial Household Depart—ment. Furthermore that the manager of the said shop, named Fan, who decamped. with the stolen goods for distant parts unknown, and who has therefore so far escaped arrest, was @ confidential servant of the accused Comptroller-General. In view of this therefore the said Censor urges that Lih Shan must naturally be cognisant of the details of the said thefts, to whom the stolen porcelain was sold, as well as of the whereabouts of the abscond~ ing manager. It is necessary, therefore, declares the said Censor, that to get at the facts of the case, Lih Shan, the proprietor of the said receiving shop. must be arrested and brought to trial before the tribunal appointed by the Throne to investigate the matter, etc. These are serious and most
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