Aenounces certain otisers connected with the Yellow River Conservation Bureau for fraudulent practices, such ay supply inferior materials £ r embankment works, og well as buying insufficient supplies order to pocket the difference resulting therefrom, ete. Now it must be obvious to all that the proper construction "f river works in Shantung is of supreme impotane# to the whole country, hence such culpable conduct as supplying insufficient as well as inferior materials for thexe important public works constitato: a serious Crime which ought in n" wise to be con-do-ed. We, therefore, command that the following penalties be named in this decree, the severity "f which is to be commensurate with the degree of culpability of each We hereby command that the following expectant district magistrates of SI tung be fo th with exshiered, vis,:—Ch'ing Jui (Manchu), Liv Chia-chen, Sung Hsin @fancha), and Ch'e Ying-tou, With reference to the expectant district magistrates Yang Sion-chia an Wang Wei-hsien, we hereby command that they be dogra ad to the rank of recorder avd judicial com nissary in a prefect's yemen, and assistant district magistrate, respective. ly, asa warning to their fell w_ officials to refrain from following in the footsteps of the above-named.
(2) Chang Kuang (Manchu), a member of the B ard of Comptrollers-General of the Tmmerial Household Department and Sen'or Vice-Presiden* of the Board of Civil Appointments, has s+n* us a prayer to be allowed to resign his office on the ground of serious illness, ete., We h rely grant the stid Ch'ung Kuang another month's leave of absence, there being no necessity for him to resign his post.
18th May.
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