(1) With reference to the penalties to be administered to the persons implicated in the charges of attempted bribery and fraud exposed by the Censors Chang Chung-yi and Sung Peh-la the other d: y, we have this day received the report of the Board of Civil Appointments thereon which is given as follows:—For his inability to keep 'a proper restraint upon the y-tunger members of his family, Hsieh Yun-sheng, President of the Board of Panishments, must suffer the degradation of three steps of rank and be transferred to a lower st; Tang Mény, First Cla-s Secretary in the Bord of Ponishinents, who has been found guilty of trying to screen his superior officer's taulis, is hereby degraded tone step in rank but isto be kept in original post, As for the other officials who have been found culpable in one or another in trying the said charges and in questioning the witnesses, etc. the waltzes rec mended by the above-named Board, which ure hereby confirmed, ure th Ying Jui and Yung Ch'éng-jan, First
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