The other day we received the memorial of the Censor Wang Ting-hsing wherein he denounced Sich Pei-hsien whom we had appointed to be Assistant Special Examiner at the triennial competi is for the M. A, degree in Kansu prviuce. Owing to the above denunciations we cancelled Sich Pei-hsien's appointment and commanded Hu Pting-chih, Governor of Shansi—the province where the accused official was said to have been guilty of misdemeanours unbecoming his rank at the time, which was also Assistant Examiner for Kansu in1894—to investigate the said charges. The report of the said Governor has now been received which he states that the charge that Sich Pei-hsien, when returning from Kansu to Peking in 1894, was guilty of allowing his servants to carry smuggled goods has not been proved, and further that the charge that when he lost certain valuables ex run te he compelled the magistrate of the district where the thefts occurred to pay him the value of the missing articles was also found to be without foundation. One thing, however, the memorialist found the accused official culpable of, and that was giving his servants too much discretion tw act in certain contingencies, which was the cause of his making enemies against himself and which Lrought the Censor to hear of the above charges. We hereby j command that the Hanli Compiler of the Second Class, Sich Pei-hsien, be handed to the Board for the determination of a penalty, 9th September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.