(1) Li_Chao-hui is transferred to the post of Recorder, and Chen Ping-ho is appointed to be Reader, of the Hanlin Acudemy.
(2) The Board of Civil Appointments is commanded to deliberate upon the memorial of the Censor Hsi Lin recommending a cor ain limit of time for requiring deportment and district, magnates, either purchase or examination, 10 present themselves at the above Board for assignment of provinces.
(3) The same Censor recommends that the lineal heirs of officers who died in fighting the battles of their Sovereign and the heirs of high officers of the Ist and 2nd ranks be all of them granted provinees where they may go as expectant officials and serve the country, instead of now lying in idleness at Peking or their homes, ete. The Board of Civil Appointments is comman: ed to deliberate and report to us concerning the above question.
(4) Chi Ch'eng(Manchu), Senior Director of the Supervisurate of Instruction of the Heir Apparent, denounces the malpractices obiaining'in the provinces amongst assistant examiners at the provincial literary examinations who frequently smuggle special friends or adherents inside the Bxamination Hall to assist in looking over the examination papers of competitors, and thus open the way to indiscriminate bribery, etc. We understand the seriousness of this charge and recognise the importance of keeping the Examination Halls pure and free from corrupt practices. We therefore command the Viceroys and Governors throughout the Empire to exercise proper care in selecting men of purity of character and of high literary learning to such important posts as assistant examiners to the Literary Chancellor of each province, and liberty is now given for the said Viceroys and Governor: to denounce in vigorous terms and free from partiality the delinquent assistant examiners who shall hereafter be guilty of the malpractices complained of above.
19th June.
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