(5) The other day we received a memorial from Sheng Hsuan-huai, Director-General of Telegraphs, Railways, etc., etc., recommending that a cashiered ex-magistrate of Yukanhsien, Kiangsi, who had afterwards joined the Telegraph Administration and distinguished himself by his energy, ability and diligence in erecting the Imperial telegraph line from Peking to Urga, Mongolia, be restored his former rank as a reward therefor. The said memorial was then handed to the Board of Civil Appointments for report thereon. We have now the said report before us in which the said Board declares that the misdemeanours for which the said official, Ho Ch'i-huan, had been cashiered and dismissed from office Were very serious ones and that the subsequent work done by him in erecting the ssid telegraph line was relatively too simple a thing fo balance and thereby cancel his previous misdemeanours, ete. The restoration to his former rank of the said Ho Ch'ituan is therefore prohibited. We would alo remind all our high offi that, if in the future they desire to give posts to men who have been cashiered for misdemeanours, they are commanded, before doing so, to follow the old rule still extant and first. report the matter to either the Board of Civil Appointments or the Board of War, as the circumstance may he. And it is hereby further insisted upon that, should the misdemeanours of the ex-officials concerned, have amounted to that of crimes and relatively speaking very serious, the high provincial official prohibited from using such men. Let this decree be published cerned far and obeyed.
28th January,
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