(1) The Board of Punishments complains this moraing, that the officers appointed on the special tribunal to try the case of the defaulting herdsien and officers in charge of the Imperial stud farms in Mongolia, have been unable to agree upon the sentences to case and suggest that we should appoint special Arbitrators to go over the whol case, listen to what the special justices have to say in the matter, and decide upon what shall be done in the said case, etc We hereby appoint the Assistant Grand Secretary and Commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie, ete., Jung Lu, and Hit Ying-kuei, President of the Board of Works, ott., to act as Arbitrators in the above case and report to us their decision thereon, (2) In regard to the above case, certain of the accused have been charged with having promised or paid bribes to their superior officers connected with the I perial Mews, but. to stringent and scare! ing questions made with reference to these charges the accused stoutly refuse to give a single straightforward answer. The Board of Punishments therefore prays that the officers so accuse! be commanded to resign their posts so that they may be put on their trial like the rest. The r quest is granted and the Senior Seeretari of the Imperial Mews, Chi Te, Yun Lin, and Shih Hong are hereby commanded to resign, and Jung Lu and Hsii Ying-kuei, the Arbitrators, are hereby commanded to try them in connection with the above charges.
(3) Yao Wen-cho, Literary Chancellor of Yunnan province, sends us a report wherein are denounced a number of directors of studies of districts, sub-prefectures, and prefectures in the said province, who are charged with being not suficiontly learned to take charge with ability of the education of the youths "f that province, He also gives the names of five of these educational officers. whose literary loro is above the average and begs that seme mark of Imperial recognition and approval be given in their case, eto. hose able officers are, therefore, hereby given the brevet rank of Secretaries of the Grand Secretarit a reward for their diligence in their duti while the rest accused of incapability ara hereby cashiered and dismissed the service, 10th June.
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