Liu Shu-tang, Governor of Honan, reports that he has received the petition of one Lu Ch'ing-tang, a native of Chi chou, Shangtung, a cadet by purchase of the Imperial Academy, who bought the rauk of department niagistrate and got appointed by a decree of the last Chinese year to the department magistracy con. neeted with the prefectural city of Kueité. ful, Honan. Itseems that when the said oticer arrived at Kueitéfu, to take over the seals of his office, he found upon enquiry that the post was inside the limits 5010 Li (185 miles) distance from his native city of Chiningchou, in Shantung province. The etiquette in the provinces is that an officer appointed to a substantive civil pos' lying inside of 500 li from the said officer's native city, the said officer is bound by to report: the case to his superior officers and ask to be transferred to a similar post at 4 point beyond the 500i noted aber matter of fact, confirmed subsquent'y for the use of the inmates of the Palaces; by a communication from the Governor of 200 extties weight of silk threads and floss Shantung in reply to an enguiry from the for stitching the clothes of the same; 1,000. memorialist, it abeared that Chiningchou is pieces of fine cotton cloth for the Imperial only 320Li (106 miles) distant from Kueité- Households of their Imperial Maj sries fu a d that the said department magistrate and 1,000 pieces fisting, satiners, pongees lias acted properly in reporting the owse to and raw silks for storage in the golowus of memorialist. In view of these, therefore the Board of Revenue, for government memorinli-t has in_ consultation with gifts, ec. The above have already been his colleagues, the Provincial Treasurer delivered at their destinations and the fre- ana Judge, decided to effect a transfer also been recorded. After employing between the "all Lu Ch*ing-tang and Li the necessary artisans and weavers at the Jui-tung, department m-gi-trate of the looms, memorialist was able to send a simi- p-fectural of Huaich'ingfu, in the sane lar quantity of silks, satiners, pongees, ete., ete., like those mentioned above to Peki the' braters of the stuffs having started overland from Hangchow in the month of D-comber last with instructions to deliver the goods as usual to the officers of the Imperial Household department and the Board of Revewue. The total sent by the Hangchow looms, including befit times, aggregated 4,550 pieces of silks, satins, ete., 400 catties weill' of silk thread and floss and 2,600 pieces of fine cotton clothes. A detailed account of expenditures in regard to the same will be sent in another memo-Let the yamens concerned province. This will bring te form-r officer [to a post considerably farther than the {500 it prescribed ly official etiquette. Rescript: Let the Board of Civil Ap, ointments take note.
6th March.
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