We hare received the memorial of Pien Pao-ch'uun, Viceroy of the Min-Che provinces, denouncing one T'ang Hsi-chung, aolward-n of the district magistracy of unganlisien, Fukien, whose culpable negligence onused the esexpe from prison of & notorious pirate named Cho Mao-lin, who was lying under sentence of death. The said Viceroy is to place the said gaol-warden under arrest as well as the rest of the gaolers under him in order to seo whether the escape vf the condemned was connived at by them in consideration of a bribe, or on some other account. The said gaol-warden is also to be first cashiered of his rank in order to reduce him to the common level when the time for his trial arrives. As for Ta Hsin-ch'up, the acting magistrate of Ch'unganbsien, in whose yamen the said pirate was confined, we hereby command that he be handed over to the Board of Civil Appointments for the determination of the usual penalty for not keeping a better look-out over his own premises; at the same time the usual period of a hundred days is be given for the recapture of the escaped criminal, failing which the offending officials will be subjected to more severe punishment.
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