Some time ago it was rumoured i Poking that it was proposed, in the scheme of general retrenchment, to abolish the Court of Revision, the duties of which wore to be handed over to the Board of Punishments. A Peking native correspondent now writes, however, that it is more likely that the Court of Re. vision will be preserved, though merely 3, High Court for Peking, while the Board' of Punishments will be made into th' Supreme Court of Appeal for the whol® Empire.
Proposed Changes in Jeho Territory. 1 The same correspondent states that upon the completion of the Peking-Changehiak'ou (Kulgan) Railway it is proposed to establish " Customs Taotai-ship at Changehiak'ou, under the style and designation of the Chang-Ta-To I tondaney. About the same time Jeho Territory (it is under a Manchu Assistant Military Governor) will be made into a province with a Governor over it (like the Eighteen Provinces of China Proper). The Exstern portion of the new provines will be under the Taotai of the Chi ch'ang Intendancy, and the Western under the above-noted Taotai of the Chang-Tu-To Intendancy, while the Viceroy of Chibli will be over all.
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