(1) Yen Mou, Tartar General of Heilungchiang, reports that in May last Sheng Liang, a military hereditary noble of the 8th grade, who holds the post of gaol-warden in the yamen of the Manchu Brigade-General of Alatsuha, requested permission for a convict on the post roads, named Liu Li-tien, to return fora short time to his family, who were alleged to have followed the said convict to the Amur; but it soon became known that this was false and that the convict had in truth escaped back into China. Orders were, therefore, sent to the various military posts en route to Moukden and Shanhaikuan to be on the look out for the fugitive. The man was subsequently captured and confessed that he had bribed the said gaolwatden and his subordinates to enable him to to his home in China proper, etc., This is indeed a grave and serious charge against the said gaolwatden, and we hereby command the said Tartar-General to cathier the said gaol-warden and put him under arrest to await trial with the captured fugitive. The guilty ones must be punished with the utmost severity of the lair.
(2) With reference to the vacancy in the prefectship of Paotingfu, as the post is one of great importance we hereby command Wang Weén-shao, the Viceroy of Chihli, 10 select the prefect best suited for the said post out of all the officials holding substantive prefectural posts in the said provines, and we further command that the post vacated by the said Viceroy's choice be given to P'an Ch'ing-chao.
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