Wu Ta-cheng, an Officer of the Premier rank and Governor of Hunan, reports that he has received an intimation from Tseng Kuang-han, successor to an Earldomn of the first order, and now expectant Assistant Under-Secretary of a Board, to the effect that he is a native of the district of Hsiangshianghsien, province of Hunan, aged twent}-four. In 1886 he succeeded in obtaining the degree of Licentiate under the Literary Chancellor of Hunan, Lu Pao-chung, and in May 1890, in accordance with the Edict of February 1890 to the Board of Civil Appointments ordering the said Bourd to obtain the literary standing and antecedents of the sous and grandsons of such high officers as the Grand Secretary Li Hung-chang and others, obtained the oficial tank of an expectant Assistant Under Secretary of a Board. The reason for this being that Tstng Kuang-han, who through the death at an early age of his own father, had become the lineal heir to the Kurldom of Wei-yi, vacated by the death in December 1890 of his gran Tsing Kuo-chuan at Nanking, and who by an Edict twelve days Inter was ordered to succeed to the said title. As direct heir in succession the said Tsing Kuang-han was bound to retire for the full period of mourning of twenty-seven months, which expired on the 18th of February last. Having made the above intimation through the district magistrate, of Hsinngshiang to the memorialist, with further notice that the said Tsing Kuang-han, Eat] of Wei-yi, intended to start from his home on the 2nd of June for Peking for an audience and also to take the duties of an expectant Assistant Under Secretary of a Board, the memorialist hastens to notify the Throne of the circumstances of the request, by the said Earl of Wei-yi _Reseript: Let the Rourd of Civil Appel ments tuke wote, DECREE ASKED FOR THE IMPRISONMENT OF A
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