(2) The Tyungli Yamen sends up a memorial by Liu Ch'ing-fen, a Secretary of the said Yamen, recom ling that each province shoul live its special mint after ign models, in order to supply currency hudly needed throughout the Empire. The stid Tsungli Yamen is hereby commanded to deliberate upon the matter and report tous.
7th September (1) Yit Lu and Li Tuan-fen who were appointed acting Presidents of the Board of the other day are he pointed to the substantive posts nted subst: native duties, but to these are added the duty of establishing schools of modern instruction and other reform measures. AIL these being of immediate importance to the masses, how careful, therefore, ought we to he that only the best, the most honest, most energetic, and the best informed as to modern usages should bs chosen to fill these district magistracies and independent sub-prefectures A. watch must be kept over all such officials, both substantive as well as expectant, and it is our wish that, should any of them prove himself worthy of a post the Viceroy or Governor of his province must at once report him to us for an audience, and if he proves all what has been said of him we shall surely advance the worthy official to a post fitting his abilities. we strive ay and night in devising measures_heneficial to our people, surely those Viceroys and Governors whom we have honoured with our confidence by appointing them to their posts ought to be expected to deserve such honour by doing their best in supplementing and carrying forward our measures of reform in order to show their gratitude tous.
A GENEROUS EMPEROR, When the subject of the Chao Hsin Bonds was introduced the Board of Revenue declared in their memorial to us that the purchase of said Bonds was entirely voluntary for the masses, and that officials would be strictly prohibited from permitting coercion upon the people to force them to buy these Bonds, The avarice and dishonesty of officials in the provinces have, however, made a dead letter of the regulations formulated by the Board of Revenue and we hear again and again of eases of coercion and forcible purchase which is, entirely contrary to our wishes and desires, We have now received another memorial on this subject of extortion and coercion from the joint memorial of Huang Kuei chun and a number of ¢o-Censors_ who unanimously denounce the officials of Szechuan, Shantung, and other provinces for people. The Board of Revenue in consi-forcing the Chay Hsin Bonds upon the jerition of the above facts have also recommended that apart from such officials the provinces who are willing to purchase the Bonds out of their own private funds, and those wealthy merchants and notables who have already applied for them, since the dissemination of the said Bonds throughout the empire has only afforded dishonest and avaricious officials a pretext for extortion from an unwilling people the further sale of said Bonds should be stopped at once. We heartily agree with the recommendation and hereby command that the sale of the Chao Hsin Bonds shall be from henceforth stopped and_ their further sale prohibited except in such eases as have been named above.
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