Should any officer hold a Taotaiship which has official jurisdiction throughout the whole province, then, if there be any lower officials in the province who are related by marriage to the said Taotai, they must be transferred to some other adjacent portion of the Empire. An expectant Prefect in Honan reports that his son was betrothed a year ago, though he has not yet been actually united, to the daughter of a certain Wang Taotai, who has just been appointed Grain and Salt Taotai for the whole province. The Prefect ought therefore to withdraw elsewhere. As he is an officer who originally obtained the right to select his own province, he therefore begs that he may still be able to exercise that power of selection and choose Chihli as the province to which he shall be transferred.—Referred to Board of Civil office.
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