Decroe in response to denunciatory memorial from Hai Liang, Vi missing from office a large number of departmental and district magistrates of said province who have shown incapability and other bad qualities during their several tenures of office the past year.
Srd February. Imperial Favours.
(1) The Grand Secretary Sun Chia-nai, the President of the Board of Foreign Affairs, Na Tang, snd Chuang Shan, member of the Board of Comptrollers-Gonoral of the Imperial Household Department, are, by extra grace of the Em-Peror, granted " Tiso-ssu" Sable robes.
(2) The same Imperial favour is hereby anted.to Samusud, the Mahomedan ince of Hami, Eastern Chinese Turkestan (on the borders of the Great Desert of Gobi).
4th February.
A New Year's Favour to Chibli Farmers.
Decroo allowing the farmers of various paris of Chili province to postpone the \payment of last year'sJand taxes and those of the year before—due the following gpring—until after the autumn term of the prosont year of his* Majesty Kuang Hall's reign, in consideration of the irregular weather experienced during the winter just past, which gives poor promise of harvest this year.
Yon Blub-k'si, Viceroy of Chi manded to give special attention to the foregoing Imperial command and to 800 that the Imperial bounty roaches those really deserving the aid it i intended to give.
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