(1) Ching Mien, Supervising Censor and also Police Censor of the Middle his colleagues req general distress still observable amongst. the people living in the suburbs of the capital, the usual grants of rice for the gruel shops during the coming winter be still carried on this year, and a list of the stations that need grants has been presented with this memorial. Wo agree with the memorialists that the poor of Peking and suburbs will still require subsistence during the coming cold weather and therefore by special act of grace command that 300 Ristribution amongst the gruel stations in piculs of rice be issued by the granaries for
the Midd'e, Exst, South, West and Nor-them cities, and. that the gentry therein be given the necessary authority from the Board of Revenue to distribute the said relief tu the poor of the said five cities.
(2) Another memorial by thy said memorialints asking that rice "be also granted to the Retuser in the various cities for feeding the aged ant help-Jess "poor who gather in them during the winter. We hereby command that 300 piculs of rice be given to the three Refuges named Ch'ung Shan-tang,. Peh Shan-tiang, and Kung Shan-tang; 300 piculs to the Mahommedan Refuge in tue Mosque in Chiaotze Street; 150 piculs to the Refuges in the Nanhaihui Buddhist temple, "outside the Ch'aoyang gute, the' Yiit'sing Taoist temple, outside the Ch'ungwén gate, and ths Shanghsin Refuge la the suburbs; 300 uls to the "Hsichyu-tang, outside the Fistienwa gate; 150 piculs to the Mshommedan Basque, outside the Ch'aoyang gate, and 300 piculs to the: Refuge at the Tittle Market in the suburbs. In this way We trust that-our helpless poor may have-a little relief during the horrors of the coming winter.
IMPERIAL DECREES, (1) Teh Yn is appointed Junior Lieut tenant-General of the garrison at the Ch'ung-wen gate.
(2) We received the other day a memorial from the Censor T-long Shih-fen denouneing the ineaprcity and avarice of Shih Nien-tsu, Governor of Ruangsi, and forth-c that he had been guilty of conspire wih Ho Chao-shan, the former acti Po vineinl Judge of Kuangsi, in preying upon the inhabitant- of the -aid province. We t ere fore commanded Ch'és Pao-chen, n, to msk- secret inv were in the said charges und to report truthfully thereon to us. The report the said Ch'in Pao-chen is now before us in which ho states that he has discovered that some of the charges had not been proved while in others th-r- were rexsop+ which led to the accused officials being suspected by outsiders of a partial complicity nnd improper conduct. But the is was due to Nien-tsu's confining in unworthy and dishonest men, who using his name and authority committed dept ditions upon the people of Kuangsi, in consequence of which many unfavourable comments hxd reached Peking against the character of the said Governor. In view of this we hereby command that Shih Nien-tsu be handed over to the Board of Civil Appointments for_an adequate penalty. With reference to Ho Chao-shan, taotai of the Tai-ping-on-shun Intendancy of Kuangsi, and former acting Provinciat Judge of said province, he had in truth been culpable of giving an unjust sentence in n case of the arrest of certain innocent people belonsiny to Chuopinghsion, in consequence of which there was an insurrection amongst the people of that district. He way also guilty of a hasty judgment in the case of prohibiting the xport of rice from the department of Yunganchou. Then as for Shiang Wan-yung, the former acting Salt Inten-lant of fu, who as an assistant judge in important case was gui ty of gratifying his private animosities in several stances, the conduct of the two above-named officers is 100 serious t" be condoned and they are hereby cashiered and dismissed from office. As for Chao Lai-yang, then acting prefect of Pinglofu, who,
him in the abore case had revoked entirely upon finding that the men charged before their previous evidence, failed to use his best energies in trying' to get to the bottom of their wrongs but, instead, sent up a report 10 the acting' Judge requesting permission to punish them for not giving the same evidence as bad been given in the lower Courts, this officer was teuly guilty of incapability and he is therefore handed to the Board for adjudication of an adequate penalty.
for the potty officials in the said Governor's yanén who also tried the case and failed to seo anything unusual in the conflicting evidence, ete., they are hereby cashiered and dismissed from their posts.
15th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.