The Archive · 1898

IMPERIAL DECREES

(1) Teéng Chi, Assistant Military Governor of Tsitsihar (Heilaogchiaog province) is hereby promoted to be Tartar General of Foochow, vice Yii Lu transferred to the Viceroyship' of Szechuan, vice Li Ping-hong, degraded.

(2) On two former occasions, Chung Huan, then Tartar General of iasut denounced the Mongol Duke and Cup General of the Lushantu League of ¥ on-gols, named A-yo-se-té-tan-chan-tsa-mu-tsu, for extorting money from his subordinate'chiefs, also for having left his post without first obtaining leave from the said memorialist. In consequence of the above representations we commanded that the said Duke should be removed from his post of Captain-General of the said Mongol League asa warning to others. We are now in receipt of a memorial from the Mongol Superintendency to the effect that the accused Duke had lodged a complaint in the said yamen declaring that he had been unjustly accused by the said Chung Huan and that consequently the penalty meted out by Imperial edict was unmerited, etc.

5 we desire to grant justice to all our subjects we are willing to order a re-investigation into the said Duke's conduct and the charges made agains: him, and therefore hereby command the newly-appointed Tartar General of Uliasut'ai, Koei Hong, the successor of the said Chung Huan, to reopen the matter. As soon as he shall have arrived at his post and taken over his seals of office, the said new Tartar General isto make a truthful report to us thereon.

18th December.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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