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Show 5 A General Defeription o L or Pomp Hecontinues three years in the E ployment, and 4l thae ¢ m from Cou conftantly Couriers going to, and co in muft daily give anaccount o UfC h what pafies in his Province At his r ft going fr Court, {feveral ‘Perfons o Great Quality (who alfo of his Council) are fentt wait upon him to. hi Palace: The Inhabitant of Citjes and Towns which he pafies, go out to mee throy him atdiftance wi him good part of hisway, bot Fo and Reverence. At length when he is arrived within t ree miles of the Capit City, wherein he is to mak his Refidence, the Garrifo accommodated, meet him of the place, excellent to guard and condu& hi 5 after whom follow the giltrates with the chiefeft Citize a s . The office of the {ec nd called Chayven, wh ch fignifies an Examiner wifea place of ‘great 'Truft byt (asis faid) €xXpire year : This Officer ecejves {o largea Co fjon from the Empe may {fupervife and infpe ur, that h t all manner of Aftairs, swell Civil as Milicary this he doth, giving anac ount thereof to an Fear and Reverence him Befides thefe great Officer of the Emperour, there is nother Examiner, cal likewife Tutang 5 but he is e ent by the Emprefs from ti e to time, and his bufinef 15 only.to vifit the Prifons o the Province, . witha ful] Po from them, asare caft in fo er to releafe all fuc trivial matters ath a very great regard t Poor, his chief Office bein only to exercife deeds of Ch rity, and extend Compaflion In each Provinceis a Treaf rer, w ho takes care o the Ro yal Revenues accry ing within the whole P ovince ;5 he recejves his miffion from the Rix-C cil appointed for the Empero rs Revenue, Witk him ar who both refide in his Pa nts ace 5 and he has g nder hi 6 Jefs Mandorines, wh employed in feveral Office ar . He receives and takes a count of all the Tolls, Im.pofitions, and Royal Tax s; takes a fpecial care of ] Weights and Meafures and determines all Caufes an Difterences which arife touc ing or concerning th Emperaurs Revenue. He s he perlon that pays all Salarie , Wages, and Annuities, whether to the Magiftrate , the Emperours Kindred or ouldicrs 5 as likewif hedisburfesall monies to b laid out for repairing of Br dges, Streets, and com.mon Edifices, fuch as the P laces of the Mandorine, The fourth Council is calle Gan Cha Sci, their bufinefsj to inflict or give Sentence for Corporal Punifhme ts Th An fifth Council takes care to imp ove and reward Learning and thus I have given youan ac evera] forts of Rix-Council i Chinas but before I c nclude with their thod of Government, i be worth our labour to ma il e fome mention of the ft ange and unufual cuftom ufed dmongft them, whic other Nations have hardl heard of. And firft of a 1t1s very obfervable, that he whole Kingdom is {wa ed by Philofophers,to wh not only the people, but t e Grandees of the Court teld an awful Reverence, i fomuch that Many times th y fubmic with a] Humilit to receive Corre8ion fro them, as Children from 1 after. . By thefe Philof hers are a] Military Aff ordered, over which they ar erfeers ; and their Counfel nions make greater impref nd Opiiong upon the Emperour then al| the moft admirabl lecrvfztions of the Comman ers themfelves, who are feldom, and then bu leme few, taken into the C uncil. By that which wil appear yet more ftrange 19 s, th faithi qardo Sec rablé hel verflo rou bea€r for th this CO Minift refpet o th Th then ns '})': is done from ' affeti the Int Gaover jear at time a ces 3 an ol dete fefled perfo in wh is{of are pun Exami Th nto f rich t ever are fe turne third a ment the e When doWn fore< ou all fu Emp] Privi every f Bef Q‘Jlmt t |