Trade Administration Of Chin

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the maintenance of order, and the dispensation of justice as well as with the conduct of literary examinations and of the government courier service, and in general with the exercise of all the direct functions of public administration. A specimen proclamation, given by Mr. Parker, well illustrates the gradations of rank of the provincial officials from highest to lowest. The Magistrate has had the honour to receive instructions from the Prefect, who cites the directions of the Taotai, moved by the Treasurer and the Judge, recipients of the commands of their Excellencies the Viceroy and Governor, acting at the instance of the Foreign Board, who have been honoured with His Majesty-s commands. . . . commands end.] Respect this. Duly communicated to the Yard, or Yards end of line], who command the sze end of line], who move the iao end], who instructs the fu end], who sends down to The Hsien, etc. Note how the Hsicn, as imperial agent, gives himself capital letters.] We therefore enjoin and command all and several, etc. The same gradation is also exemplified in the accompanying diagram, in which, however, the exigencies of space require the apparent subordination of the Taotai to the Sze, while he is actually with but after the Sze. Historically the Governor is an interloper, dating back only to the Ming Dynasty, being originally a visiting inspector delegated by the Imperial Government to supervise and report on the working of the provincial administration, but tending by degrees to become a fixture; in some important functions of government the Pu-cheng Shih-sze, the original Governor, the present Provincial Treasurer, still in theory remains the chief. The Viceroy dates back only to the last century of Ming rule. The Taotai is still more modern, dating from the...