The day after I wrote you of the illness and death of G-vernor Yuan's mother, we ted to hear that an Imperial Decree had been received from Hsian forbidding His Excellency to leave the proce, but allowing him to mourn in private in his yamen during the ordinary hundred days." The Governor, being the adopted son of his uncle, would net he expected, according to Chinese usage, to go out of office for three years, but would in ordinary circumstances be expected to resign his office and follow his mother's remains to her burial place in the ancestral home in Honan, That he has thus been required by Imperial Decree to forego the performance of this tual duty is a com-piiment to His Excellency's ability, and a reassuring sign that his services are
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