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really experience our Imperial benevolence. Let them not permit inferior 

 agents to embezzle the least portion of the grant ; and when the business is 

 concluded let a report be made. 



" KMn-tsze," 



XXIV. Erection of additional Prisons at Canton — Imperial Decree. 



6th moon, 2d day (28th June). 

 " Yuen and his colleagues have presented an address concerning the 

 expediency of erecting additional prisons at Canton. The convicted 

 prisoners in Canton province are very numerous, and it has always been the 

 custom for the several Foo-cho-w and Heen districts to send their prisoners 

 for trial, as well as all such robbers and associated banditti as have been 

 apprehended in tliem, to the prisons of Na7i-]iae and Pwan-yu-heen.* The 

 said viceroy and his colleagues have ascertained that the existing establish- 

 ment of prisons is so confined as to cause pestilential disorders and deatli 

 among the prisoners from over-crowding ; it is, therefore, right that for 

 the future the number of persons confined therein be considerably lessened. 

 In Pwan-yu-heen there is, it appears, a spot on which the new prison msiy 

 be conveniently built. According to the tenour of the address, let capital 

 offenders from the several Foo-clioiv and Heen districts of the pro\dnce 

 be confined in the old prisons of Nan-luie and Pwan-yu-lieen ; but let 

 those prisoners whose crimes do not subject them to a higher punishment 

 than distant banishment be sent to tlie new prison. As the spot on whicli 

 the new prison is to stand is close to the office of the Ho-pih-so (who has the 

 control of all persons living on the river), let the said officer be the keeper 

 of the prison ; but no addition need be made on this account to his pay and 

 allowances. The necessary expense of building, which has been calculated 

 at 3,500 taels and upwards, may be disbursed by the viceroy, without send- 

 ing in a particular detail. Let their resolutions be adopted in all other 

 respects : the proper board will take cognizance of it. 



" Khin-tsze." 



XXV. Presentation of Military Officers at Court. 



6th moon, 5th day (9th July). 

 " Na-yeyi-ching, viceroy of Shen-se and Kan-suh, respectfully presents 



♦ Districts of Kwang-ckou'^o. 



