(1) As Ch'én Hi from Peking and still engaged in of Literary Examiner in the provinces, we hereby command H+i Yung-yi to act pro tem.-as Junior Vice-President of the Board of Revenue with control over the mints, until the former official's return to the capital.
and Governors of proviners to send us (2) dt has been the custom for Vieer annual secret reports, at the end of each year, concerning the abilities, general conduct, and honesty of their subordinates, commencing from those holding the sub: stantive and expectant ranks of Taotai and refect down to the petty officials of the jast or 9th class, With these repens data we are enabled to know the value each official in the provinces 10 whom has Noon' entrusted the direction of the offal of our subjects, the common people. The following, however, appears to us inexplicable.' On a former occasion we received one of these secret annual repor's from.T'an Chung-lin, the Viceroy of the Two Kuang provinces, who eulogised a certain ChouTien-lin, prefect of Sz'énfu, in Kuangsi province, declaring that he was 'a man to thoroughly trusted, both as an honest and talented official, who attended to his duties earnestly nnd diligently, and whom the lo under him grent Nov, however, Shi Nion-teu, ex-Governor of Kuangsi, sends us an altogether different report of this Chou ien-lin, stating tha "the reputation for ability of the said prefect of Sz'énfu is mediocre, and from his general cmduct he is not to be trusted to hold an important post," ete. This is rather strange and calls for an investiga-lion, "We, therefore, comand Huang Huai-sen, the present Governor of Ruangsi, and Hsii Chen-yi, Governor of Kuangtung, to investigate conjointly the case and report to us as to how the eaid prefect really stands in the estimation of the people of the prefecture of Sz'difu, Let there be no private likes or dislikes to stand in the way ofa perfectly just report, 14th November.
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