(1) In honour of our birthday anniversury on the 7th proximo we hereby ordain that the 4th, 5th and 7th days of August next be made a Court holiday when all the Ministers and Court officials shall be excused from attending for duty at the Palace and Grand Council Hall.
(2) Chang Ju-mei, Provincial Treasurer of Shensi and acting Governor, re: ports the escape from the district gaol Paochenbisien, Shensi, of Fu Wan-tsai and two others, who had' been condemned to'die by decapitation at the next Autumn assisses. We hereby command that Ts'ai Ho-shan, the gaol-warden of Paoch'eng-basion, be forthwith cashiered, "arrested, and tried by the said Acting-Governor who is, also commanded to see that all the gaolers connected therewith be also arrested and been any bribes taken by them in order to placed on trial to see whether there have
connive at the escape of the said condemned prisoners. As for Lin Yao-ting, the district magistrate in whose yamen is situated the said gaol, although he declares that he was at the time absent from Paoch'eng-hsien on. public duty, and so not responsible for the.said-ese-po, we are of the opinion that he cannot: excuse himself from the serious responsibility attached to the breaking of gaol by such a number as three condemned prisoners, and he is handed over to the Board fur the determination of adequate penalties, and is to be given the usual limit wf time to effect the recapture of the refugees from justice, failing which heis to be further dealt with.
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