The other day we received memorials from both the Imperial Resident of Kobdo, Pao: ig, and from Lu Hsiang, the Assistant Resident, accusing one another of receiving bribes and other misdemeanour. We therefore deputed Lien Shun to go at once to Kobdo and investigate on the spot. The report of the aid Lien Shun is now before us in chieh he states that the Chief Resident although not proved to have received Inibes had still been guilty of inability to restrain and preserve discipline amongst his subordinates as well as being too much under the influence of his favourites. We hereby command the said Pao Ch'ang to be cashiered and dismissed from his post of Imperial Resident of Kobdo, and his favourites, P'ei Kuo, ay expectant Secretary of the Mongolian Superintendency, anit Sha Vu-fu, a Manchu scribe, to be forthwith cashiered and dismissed for ever from the public service. With regard to the Assistant Resident, Lu Hsiang, whose only fault was to use the courier post service without permission of his superior officer, his act was excusable in that unless he did so ha would have been wrongly accused to the Throne by his superior officer. The said Lu Hsiang is therefore absolved from blame.
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