in which he asks that punishments be awarded certain Manchu officers in charge of the prisons in the city of leet of duty, ete. It seems that a criminal who had been condemned Jed to death managed, through nek of vigilance of his keepers, recently to escape from gaol and succeeded in avoiding ral hours. He was, awlers before the which, although an extenuating circumstance fur his gaolers, still does not excuse them from the charge of lack of watchfulness and care in the discharge of their important dari We, therefore, hereby command the Chief Wa rden, the Manchu be Boputy Prison Warden, to be deprived ut his official button as a'punishment, while they are still to remain. in their posts to work, by good conduct in the future, for the restoration of their original ranks and oficial buttons.
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