. Desultory notes on the government and people of China, and on the Chinese language: illustrated with a sketch of the province of Kwang-Tûng, shewing its division into departments and districts. landers, or the Kerry Irish, called Yau,whence the sub-prefect has the two words Li-yaui. e. ruling the yau, prefixed to his title. 9. Tung CHI, sub-prefect; and tung pan, de-puty SUB-PREFECT. Of the former, there are eight in Kwang-tung,of the latter, seven. With the exception of onesub-prefect placed under the salt commissioner(in which post he ranks as high as a prefect), andof a deputy sub-prefect
. Desultory notes on the government and people of China, and on the Chinese language: illustrated with a sketch of the province of Kwang-Tûng, shewing its division into departments and districts. landers, or the Kerry Irish, called Yau,whence the sub-prefect has the two words Li-yaui. e. ruling the yau, prefixed to his title. 9. Tung CHI, sub-prefect; and tung pan, de-puty SUB-PREFECT. Of the former, there are eight in Kwang-tung,of the latter, seven. With the exception of onesub-prefect placed under the salt commissioner(in which post he ranks as high as a prefect), andof a deputy sub-prefect, who assists the grain col-lector, all these officers are stationed at differentimportant points through the province: at mili-tary stations, many of them having the power toset troops in motion; at large towns; and in theneighbourhood of mountaineers, or of places fre-(piented by outer barbarians. Thus there is asub-prefect at the large manufacturing town ofFo shan, near Canton; one at Chien-shan, nearMacao (mandarin of Casa Branca); and one atYai chou, in Ghai-nan, a district that is said tobe suspended, orphanlike, at the extreme south,with the vast and boundless ocean on three A MANDARFN OF THK SIXTH CLASS IN HALF DHKSH UNlFOflM liiM:.,. I U l( All.,, It. r, l,,.i,;ill :;trne1. Maj-ch 1847 NOTE VIII. 89 arid the Li mountaineers on the borders to betranquillized and guided. They are also a sort of sheriffs-general for seve-ral districts, having the duty incumbent on themof apprehending criminals in these districts. The sub-prefecture of Chi6 shi, a military sta-tion near the coast, in the Lu fung district in theGhwui chou department, was, a few months ago,removed to the Bocca Tigris.* In the inferior departments, called Chi-li ch6u,there are chou tung, sub-prefects, and ch6u pan,deputy sub-prefects, of inferior departments, whoare employed much in the same way as the cor-responding officers of the superior departments. 10. ChI Ch6u and CHl HSIEN,
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