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Enclosure in No. 29.
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Summary of Presidential Orders appearing in the "Government Gazette
9th January, 1913, and containing Regulations designed to create uniformity in the Local Government of China.
Order No. 2.
THROUGHOUT the republic, with the exception of Mongolia, Thibet, and Koko-nor, the chief provincial authority is to be the civil administrator"; or, in provinces where no such official has been yet appointed, the military governor, who is to carry out the duties of civil administrator in addition to his own.
It is laid down that the chief administrative authority in every province shal! establish an "Administrative Office," to consist of a general office and the following departments:-
Department of the Interior.
Department of Finance. Department of Education.
Department of Industry.
Each of these departments is to have a "chief of department," while the sections of each department are to have each a chief and assistants.
Order No. 3.
This order deals with the local government of the metropolis.
Order No. 4.
By this order the Chinese title of the old intendants of circuit or Taotais is altered, the extent of their jurisdiction remaining the same as formerly. In provinces where the post of Taotai has been abolished the chief administrative authority may, if the circumstances require it, establish intendants of circuit under the new title.
Order No. 5.
All subdivisions of a province, whether prefectures, sub-prefectures, departments, or districts, are in future to be styled "districts." The chief administrative authority in each is to be the district magistrate.
In every district where a Court of Justice has not yet been established, one to three assistant judges may be appointed by the judiciary organisation commission.
Order No. 6.
By this order the various titles previously existing for the commissioners of Foreign Affairs are altered to that of Foreign Affairs delegates of the Board of Foreign Affairs. Such delegates are only to be appointed at the more important open ports.
The place of all commissioners of law or justice at present existing is to be taken by a judiciary organisation commission in each province,
Superintendents of customs and salt commissioners are to remain as heretofore. Foreign Office delegates, chiefs of judiciary organisation commissions, controllers of customs, and salt commissioners are to be appointed by the President on submission of names by the Premier at the request of the head of the Ministry concerned.
In a separate order it is directed that all the above orders shall be carried out by March 1913.
They are provisional and shall only remain in force until regulations are passed by the National Council.
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