The Beit:1, I-mo, as Lieutenant-General of the Plain Blue Banner force, addresses a formal complaint direct to the Throne respecting the quality of the rice served out to his troops by the Granary officials for the last quarter of the year. On the Ath of January he proceeded in person, accompanied by his Secretary, to the Pei-hsin Granary, and drew a ticket for the department of the building from which he and his men were to receive their allowance of rice, The Superintendents of the establishments furnished them withasample of the rice and it seemed fit for consumption, When the grain had, however, been actually drawn, it' proved to be all musty and mildewed and so full of dirt and grit as to be quite uneatable. The inspectors on being questioned on the subject stated that with the exception of the rice reserved for commutation silver payments, all the supply was old rice of the quality issued on the present occasion. The Censor charged with the surveillance of the granaries certified that the rice was unfit fur human. consumption, and the memorialist now begs to submit a sample of it for the inspection of the Emperor, together with the specimen first furnished to him by the granary official. Decree already published.
27th and wth Januar
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