Even private gambling is visited with severe punishment. When he hears of gambling in houses of the wealthy, he takes a couple of soldiers and raids the homes and exacts fines Severe enough to bring in consider-fable revenue for cleaning up the ity, and to pay for the new jail.
Success along these lines, leads one to infer. that when he has issued proclamations prohibiting the cutting Of trees on the mountains, he will See to it that the trees will not be cut. He has already notified the pao-hangs (men in charge of 100 families each) that each will be responsible for the trees in his area, and has given orders to the the police and Soldiers in the section that they are to back the peo chang in carrying out the order of the proclamation. Not only s0, but he has sent a qualified man to go around among the pao changs and show them what sprouts are worth saving from the hooks of the grass-cutters and which are worthless from the standpoint of afforestation.
'Another factor has come in tending to give assurance that orders togued' from. the. magistrate' will be. actually carried out, Governor of Anhwei made a circuit fof the slons last_month. Towards the end of the month he called to Inspect what was going on here. During his visit, he called a meeting of the staff of the yamen and of the Prominent men of the city. He told them that he had inspected the work done by their mew mayor and was very much pleased with all that he had done, and that what he had done was just' following out instructions that had been given him on his visit to Anking when he was appointed to his ofice.
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