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LIST OF OFFICERS

OF THE

CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

From the

大清縉紳

Tá Tsing Tsin Shin, or

Governmental Red Book, we select only the names of those persons

who are likely to come to the notice of foreigners.

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY

道光

TAU-KWANG,

The present emperor of China, was born the 10th of the 8th moon A. D. 1781, and succeeded his father Kiáking 24th of August 1821,

1.

2.

The leading members of the Cabinet,

3. 寶典

or

OF NUI KOH,.

Muchángáh, a Manchu; Pwán Shíngan, a Chinese;

Pauhing, a Manchu;

4. Choh Pingtien, a Chinese;

5. 耆英

Kiying, a Manchu;

6.

Chin Kwántsiun, a Chinese.

PRINCIPAL OFFICERs at canTON,

1., Kiying,

Governor-general of the two provinces of Kwangtung and Kwángsí,