The Board of Works having memorialised that the Eastern mausolea of the Imperial family require a thorough course Of repairs, we hereby command that P'u Shan, Vice-President of the Board of Civil Appointments, and Shou Ch'ang, Vice-President of the Board of War, be sent to the said mausolea to superintend the making of the said repairs. that during the months of September and October last while the commercial agents of the Imperial Granaries were engaged in transporting rice bought for the purpose of making up the reserve lent to the rice shops of the capital, they were suddenly pounced upon by'two men, named Sun Eth and liu Erh, who, representing themselves as the servants of Pao An, Granary Censor, extorted certain monies from he said agents on the ground that they were transporting rice which had not paid the usual octroi. The accused men are now lying in the prison of the city gendarmerie, and a request is made that they be handed over to the Board of Punish".ents for trial. As the above-named Censor Pao An is implicated in the matter by the two extortioners, he is also com-manied t" bold himself in readiness to appear b fore the Board of Punishments whenever called upon to do so. The said affair must be -ifted to the bottom ay already similar emnplaints have been made since the above arrests.
8th December,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.