. 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. th the exception of the judge,he has no prisons under his immediate control;on the other hand, he has corn stores, and seems,like the grain collector, to have some part of thecommissariat duties to discharge. An intendantmay get promotion, either to the post of saltcommissioner or to that of provincial judge; orhe may be made grain collector, which is, how-ever, not called a promotion, inasmuch as he
. 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. th the exception of the judge,he has no prisons under his immediate control;on the other hand, he has corn stores, and seems,like the grain collector, to have some part of thecommissariat duties to discharge. An intendantmay get promotion, either to the post of saltcommissioner or to that of provincial judge; orhe may be made grain collector, which is, how-ever, not called a promotion, inasmuch as he ranksas high as this latter officer. 8. Cm FU, PREFECT OF DEPARTMENT ; CHl LI CHOU,PREFECT OF INFERIOR DEPARTMENT ; AND CHl LITLTNG cm, INDEPENDENT SUB-PREFECT. There are in Kwang-timg nine chi fu, eachhaving the general superintendence of one of thenine fu, or departments, contained in the pro-vince ;* four chi li chou, one at the head of eachof the inferior departments denominated chou,viz. Chia ying chou, Nan-chiung chou, Leen chou,and L6-ttng chou ; and two chi-li-tung-chi, one * See Sketch of Kwang-tung, which was drawn chieflywith the view of serving as an illustration to this A iMj\NDARIN OF THE SIXTH CLASS IN SlIMMKK DRESS by ¥. &C? Leadenhall Slreet. March 1847. NOTE VIII. 87 at the head of each of the inferior departmentsdenominated ting, viz. Le^n-shan ting and F6-kang ting. The duties of these three descrip-tions of mandarins are the same in their nature,and the only difference subsisting between themis, that the prefect of inferior department and theindependent sub-prefect have a smaller territoryunder them, and are promoted to the post of pre-fect. The two former are, however, in theirrespective posts, not placed under any prefect;but when they have occasion to refer to a supe-rior, they communicate directly with the in-tendant in whose circuit their departments aresituated, or to the higher provincial authori-ties. What I ha
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