Last year, as has already been mentioned in these papers, a man calling himself Capt. Liu Wei-mei presented certain credentials to the authorities at Foochow and on the strength of them applied for a military appointment. On writing to the Goverment of Kansu, the Viceroy learnt that the applicant could not possibly be the man that he represented himself to be. Orders were therefore issued for his arrest and trial. When examined, he confessed to the court that his real name was Liu Yii-shan and that he was a native of Ch'angsha in Hunan, Being without occupation at home ho wanted to enter the military service. The head of his clan therefore gave him the credentials of a relative, Captain Liu Wei-nei, who had died some years before, sud in "the hopes, of getting empleyment through them, he had presented them. as belonging to himself. Beyond this the Court found that he had not committed any crime nor been guilty of any extortion or fraud. The Viceroy finds that decapi tion is the legal penalty for the crime of Yuying another man's papers and taking op a post to which that man has been appointed, But that isa graver offence than. the which the present prisoner has been ed, and in a similar case which xd'some years ago there was a smaller penalty inflicted. Following this Uresudent, the memeralist condemns Liu Yii-shan to receive a hundred blows and to be banished three thousand (i, The head of the clan who gave him the documents is reported to be dead; but the truth of this should be found out by the magistrate of Ch'angsha.—Referred to the Board of Punishments, 29th April.
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