reference to the punishments to be awarded to the officials having charge of the Eastern Imperial Mausolea for negligence of their daties in having been unable to discover until too late the real extent of the ravages of the tree-destroying worms and grubs surrounding the said Mausolea, we have now heforeus the joint report of the Boards of Warand Civil Appointments and the Imperial Clan Court, who recommend, and we hereby confirm, the following sentences, namely, that P'u Ling and Ling Chia, nobles, ninth in order of descent of the Imperial Lineage, Chief Superintendents of the sail Manse ea, be hereby dismissed from their posts and fined annually, for four consecutive years, one-hilt of the income belonging to them by right of their rank and Imperial lineage, without going into details as to prospects of commuting their penalties by '"'set-offs" of good conduct marks. As for Wen Jui, Brigadier-General and Superintendent of Octroi at Malanchén and a Comptroller-General of the Imperial Household Department, for his share in the general negligence of duties and carelessness, we hereby cashier and dismiss him from his post.
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