Superintendency, is hereby "pp-inted Examiner-in-chief of Archery, on foot. and horseback, of the Banner candidates for the degree of chwjén (provincial graduate) ut the forthcoming competitions.
(2) Yi Lie' is appointed Chief Proctor at the said competitions, (8) We have received the memori 1 of the Censor Yang Ch'ung-yi who complains of the great scarcity of copper cash throu out the Empire, in ¢ sequence of "hich copper cash has' become exceedingly dear in the exchange markets, The great t-double lies in the fact that a though the purcins.
ug power vf the said copper cash hus thereby become correspondingly increase the prices of ursin, mea" and food goner, ally instead of declining as might be expected, have also become proportion: ntely—at the rate of one in four—higher than when cash was normal. The price of copper cash thus becomes enhanced a little over twenty per cent above its normal level. Grain for instance formerly priced at 2000 cash per picul should by rights have been purchasable at the rate of 1,600 cash; but ins: ead of this people hare! to pay 2,250 cash por picul wus through scarcity of this me hum of ex: change the poor people of the country have to suffer both in the dearness of money as well asin enhanced prices of povi-This sad condition of affairs the Censor assures us is universal throughout the Winpire, and he therefore prays th t trict ¢: mmands ho forthwith issued to the and Governors of provinces to re-open the "id mints which have been closed for maxy years within their several jurisdictions, and where there have been [none that new mints be established in order that a free supply be given t the people of this Empire.
The said Censor further denounces the poop'e in charge of the government mist
states that tie word "mint" in their case the Southern City of the expitsd and [is but " hollow name, ete. The Board of Rerenue is commanded to investigate the whole matter as presented by the said Censor and report to us at an early date.
(4) We have received a memorial from Pien Pao-ch'u n, Vice ey of the provinces jof Fokien and Chésiang, asking that may be sent to the newly-appointed Provincial Juds- of Fukien to hasten to tek- up his post as there are cun-siderable arrears inthe luries of the said post which a me e'y Acving Judge hag!no authority to settle, ete, With regard to
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