(1) Prince Tsai Ying and Tso-lé-fong-d are appointed Proctors at the archery competition on horseback und on foot of the Manchu Banner candidates for the Ticentiate or B.A. degree.
(2) Eo Shun is appointed one of the Proct"rs at the literary examinations of the same candidates, (3) We have received the memorial of Hsii Tao-kun, a Censor, reciting the great. distress of the peuple of Kiangsi province in consequence of the recent foolls there, since the beginning of the summer, caused. by incessant rains in the spring. We fully sympathise with our poor subjects in their troubles and hereby exhort the provincial authorities of Kivngsi to exert themselves to the utmost in transporting food and money to the famished districts, (4) E Ling-nieh, Tartar General in Kansu provine-, denounces Teh Teng, senior Colonel of the Left Wing of the ichu garns n of Liangehou, Kansu, of swallowed up all the money set aside in the military exchequer "t Liangchou for purchasing arms an-! ammunition to fit the troops out with proper rifles, etc., after the style of the foreign-drilled regiments. It appears upon investigation by the memorialist, who had recently been appointed to the said post, that the said necused officer had the control of the military chest for over a dozen yenrs, during which time he had preketed the said surplus in collusion with the Banner Captains Yoi Chen and Yung Asien. This conduct merits severe punishment on the culprits, and we hereby command that the raid Colonel he forthwith cashiered and dismissed for ever from the service; that his peacock feather decoration be publicly plucked forth from his hat, and that he be sentenced to hard labour on the military post roads to expiate his crime. The accused tio Cuptains are also hereby cashiered, while the m library chujén En Yuan who has proved himself to be fa quarrelsome disposition and guilty of conduct unbecoming a man of his rauk is also commanded to be cashiered as a warning to others. The Mongolian Superintendency is hereby commanded to take note.
23rd July.
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