With regard to the suggestions of reform in the Government sent by the various Viceroys and Governors of provinces to Heian as already noted in these columns, the following recommendations under 14 headings were sent by HE, T'ao Mu, the enlightened Viceroy of the Two Kuang provinces, namely:—(1) To change the nuethod of selecting offcils. (2) To change the method of collecting taxes and likin, (3) To change the methods of criminal investigation, (4) To change the present standing of officials under the 3rd rank. (5) To change the present legal currency Of the country. (6) To change the present colleges into schools for the study of Western learning. (7) To change official book tories into translation bureaux. (8) To institute newspapers after the manner of Western countries. (9) To organise and drill the armies of the country after the methods of the West. (10) To encourage the construction of railways and opening up of mines. (11) To reform fault in the
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