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# Detective Story Magazine/The Secret of the Quarry

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As serialized in Detective Story Magazine, 19 Feb 1921 to 12 Mar 1921. Published in book form as The Talleyrand Maxim (US: 1920)
Linford Pratt accepts the Talleyrand maxim, “with time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” He decides that with time and patience, and incidentally with much cleverness and without righteous scruples, his own life, which is an insignificant mulberry leaf, can be transformed into satin. He begins by snatching a will from a dead man’s pocket, and then a very ingenious and well told mystery story follows. —The Booklist, (Chicago) March 1920.
The Secret of
the Quarry
$^{by}$ J. S. Fletcher
Author of “The Middle Temple Murder,” “The Cortland Mystery,” “The Lost Mr. Linthwaite,” etc.
* Part I 19 Feb 1921
* Part II 26 Feb 1921
* Part III 05 Mar 1921
* Part IV 12 Mar 1921
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# Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Authorizing the State Council to Temporarily Adjust the Implementation of Relevant Provisions in the Metrology Law of the PRC in the Pilot Cities for Business Environment Innovation

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(Adopted at the 31st Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on October 23, 2021)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Authorizing the State Council to Temporarily Adjust the Implementation of Relevant Provisions in the Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China in the Pilot Cities for Business Environment Innovation
(Adopted at the 31st Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on October 23, 2021)
In order to further transform the government functions, improve the business environment, and stimulate the market, the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress decides at its 31st meeting to authorize the State Council to temporarily adjust the implementation of the relevant provisions of the Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China (catalog of provisions attached) for business environment innovation in the six pilot cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The adjustment shall last for three years counting from the date when this Decision goes into effect. The State Council shall strengthen the guidance for, coordination in, and supervision of the pilot program, draw up experience from it in a timely manner, and report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the implementation of the temporary adjustment of the relevant legal provisions. For the adjustments proving to be feasible, the corresponding part of the law shall be revised and improved; for those adjustments that are unsuitable in practice, the original provisions shall be reinstated.
This Decision shall go into effect as of the date of promulgation.
Catalog of Provisions of the Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China and the Temporary Adjustments to their Implementation by the State Council under Authorization
| 序号 | 法律规定 | 调整适用内容 |
| 1 | 《中华人民共和国计量法》 第八条　企业、事业单位根据需要，可以建立本单位使用的计量标准器具，其各项最高计量标准器具经有关人民政府计量行政部门主持考核合格后使用。 | 暂停调整适用《中华人民共和国计量法》第八条、第九条第一款的有关规定，对在北京、上海、重庆、杭州、广州、深圳等6个营商环境创新试点城市内的企业内部使用的最高计量标准器具，由企业自主管理，不需计量行政部门考核发证，不再实行强制检定。 调整后，营商环境创新试点城市加强对企业自主管理最高计量标准器具的指导和事中事后监管，确保满足计量溯源性要求和计量标准准确。 |
| 2 | 第九条第一款　县级以上人民政府计量行政部门对社会公用计量标准器具，部门和企业、事业单位使用的最高计量标准器具，以及用于贸易结算、安全防护、医疗卫生、环境监测方面的列入强制检定目录的工作计量器具，实行强制检定。未按照规定申请检定或者检定不合格的，不得使用。实行强制检定的工作计量器具的目录和管理办法，由国务院制定。 | 暂停调整适用《中华人民共和国计量法》第八条、第九条第一款的有关规定，对在北京、上海、重庆、杭州、广州、深圳等6个营商环境创新试点城市内的企业内部使用的最高计量标准器具，由企业自主管理，不需计量行政部门考核发证，不再实行强制检定。 调整后，营商环境创新试点城市加强对企业自主管理最高计量标准器具的指导和事中事后监管，确保满足计量溯源性要求和计量标准准确。 |
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# Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Conferment of National Medals and National Honorary Titles on the Occasion of the 75th Founding Anniversary of the People's Republic of China

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(Adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress on September 13, 2024)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Conferment of National Medals and National Honorary Titles on the Occasion of the 75th Founding Anniversary of the People's Republic of China
(Adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress on September 13, 2024)
In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, for the purpose of honoring eminent individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the building and development of the New China and carrying forward the ethos of the nation and the times, and in accordance with the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Law of the People's Republic of China on National Medals and National Honorary Titles, at its 11th Meeting, the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress has decided as follows:
1. To award the Medal of the Republic to:
Wang Yongzhi, Wang Zhenyi, Li Zhensheng, and Huang Zongde.
2. To award the Friendship Medal to:
Dilma Rousseff (Female, Brazil).
3. To award national honorary titles as follows:
To award Wang Xiaomo and Zhao Zhongxian the title of People's Scientist;
To award Bayika Kalidibek (Tajik Ethnicity) the title of People's Guard;
To award Tian Hua (Female) the title of People's Artist;
To award Xu Zhenchao the title of People's Craftsman;
To award Zhang Jinfan and Huang Danian the title of People's Educator;
To award Lu Shengmei (Female) the title of People's Health Worker;
To award Zhang Zhuoyuan the title of Outstanding Contributor to Economic Research; and
To award Zhang Xielin the title of Outstanding Contributor to Sports.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress calls on the Chinese people of all ethnic groups to rally even closer around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, take the recipients of national medals and honorary titles as role models, learn from and disseminate their meritorious deeds, pool our collective wisdom and strength and forge ahead with enterprise, to make greater contributions to building a great country and rejuvenating Chinese nation on all fronts through Chinese modernization.
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# Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Formulation of Supervisory Regulations by the National Supervisory Commission

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(Adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on October 26, 2019)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Formulation of Supervisory Regulations by the National Supervisory Commission
(Adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress on October 26, 2019)
For the purpose of implementing the Constitution and the Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China, ensuring that the National Supervisory Commission performs the functions and duties of the highest-level supervisory organ according to law, the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress has decided as follows based on the actual need of supervisory work:
1. National Supervisory Commission shall formulate supervisory regulations in accordance with the Constitution and the laws.
Supervisory regulations may stipulate on the following matters:
(1) for the need of implementing the provisions of law; and
(2) for the need of performing the duty of leading the work of local supervision commissions at various levels.
Supervisory regulations shall not be in contravention with the Constitution or the laws.
2. Supervisory regulations shall be subject to the decision of the plenary meeting of the National Supervision Commission, and be made public by announcement of the National Supervision Commission.
3. Within 30 days after being announced, the supervisory regulations shall be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the record.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has the power to repeal the supervisory regulations that are in contravention with the Constitution or a law.
This Decision shall come into force as of October 27, 2019.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beighton, Thomas

​BEIGHTON, THOMAS (1790–1844), missionary, was born at Ednaston, Derbyshire, on 25 Dec. 1790. He was educated by the liberality of a Unitarian minister, but adopted evangelical principles, and was sent by the London Missionary Society as a missionary to Malacca. In 1819 he was stationed at Penang. Besides teaching in schools and holding religious services, he set up a printing-press, from which he issued works in the Malay language. He translated into Malay and issued from his press parts of the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' Baxter's 'Saints' Rest,' and the Anglican liturgy. On a rumour that the mission was to be removed, a petition against his removal, signed by fifty-six native merchants and others, was sent in. He died at Penang on 14 April 1844.
[information from J. T. Beighton, Esq.; Evangelical Magazine, March and April 1845; Sunday at Home, December 1881.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beilby, William

​BEILBY, WILLIAM, M.D. (1783–1849), a philanthropic physician of Edinburgh, was born at Sheffield, 13 April 1783. In 1807 he entered into a partnership in the linen trade with some relatives in Dublin, but in 1813 he removed to Edinburgh to study medicine. After taking the degree of M.D. in 1816, he settled in Edinburgh to practise midwifery. He soon obtained a high reputation in his profession, and was appointed physician accoucheur to the New Town Dispensary. He took a prominent interest in benevolent and religious matters, including the schemes of the Evangelical Alliance, and was the first president of the Medical Missionary Society. He died on 30 May 1849.
[Selection from the Papers of the late Dr. William Beilby, F.R.C.P.E., with a memorial sketch, by J. A. James, Birmingham, 1850.]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beith, William

Did not exist, according to the ODNB.
​BEITH or BEETH, WILLIAM (15th cent.), a Dominican writer, according to Anthony à Wood, spent his early years at Oxford, and was, towards the middle of his life, made provincial of his order for England. The apparent date assigned for his appointment to this office in Altamura's 'Bibliotheca Ordinis Prædicatorum' is 1480; but he does not uppear to have continued to hold it till the time of his death. According to Possevinus he was still living in 1498. Those of Beith's writings whose titles have been preserved include commentaries on the 'Sentences' of Peter Lombard, a treatise 'De Unitate formarum,' and certain 'Lecturæ Scholasticæ.' According to Wood, Beith was a most successful provincial of his order, and achieved a great renown amongst the learned men of Henry VII's reign.
[Pits, 684; Quetif's Scriptores Ord. Pædic. i. 892; Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses (ed. Bliss, 1813), 6; Ambrosius de Altamura (ed. 1677), 203, 521.]
T. A. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bek

​BEK is the name of a family in Lincolnshire, from which sprang several men of eminence in the thirteenth century. The Beks were descended from one Walter Bek, called in the 'Great Survey' Walter Flandrensis, who came over with William the Conqueror, and received from him the lordship of Firesby in Lincolnshire, 'et multa alia maneria.' From his three sons, I. Henry, II. Walter, and III. John, sprung three great Lincolnshire families: I. Bek of Eresby, II. Bek of Luceby, III. Bek of Botheby. With the last of these we have no concern.
I. From Henry Bek, lord of Eresby, was descended, about the middle of the thirteenth century, Walter Bek, who had three sons: (1) John, lord of Eresby, from whose daughter the Lords Willoughby de Eresby claimed their descent, as they obtained from her their barony; (2) Thomas (d. 1293), who became bishop of St. David's in 1280 [see below], (3) Antony, the third son (d. 1310), who became bishop of Durham in 1283 [see below].
II. From Bek of Luceby sprang another Walter, who was constable of the castle of Lincoln at the time when his kinsmen Thomas I and Antony I were respectively bishops of St. David's and Durham, and died 25 Aug. 1291. He had three sons: (1) John, born 18 Aug. 1278; (2) Antony II, born 5 Aug. 1279; (3) Thomas II, born 22 Feb. 1282.
The three sons were all under age at the date of their father's death, and probably ​became wards of their kinsman Antony I, the great bishop of Durham. (1) Of John there is nothing that need be said. (2) Antony II was bishop of Norwich from 30 March 1337 till his death, 19 Dec. 1343 [see below]. (3) Thomas II was consecrated bishop 7 July 1342, and died on 2 Feb. 1340-7 [see below].
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bek, Thomas II

​BEK, THOMAS II (1282–1347), bishop of Lincoln, born on 22 Feb. 1282, was the youngest of the three sons of Walter Bek of Luceby, constable of Lincoln Castle [see Bek, family of], a kinsman of the bishops of Durham and St. David's. His father died on 25 Aug. 1291, when Thomas was nine years old, and he and his brothers, John and Antony [q. v.] (afterwards bishop of Norwich), probably became wards of Anthony, bishop of Durham. Devoting himself to the clerical profession, he attained considerable distinction, being styled 'clericus nobilis et excellens' by Walsingham (p. 150). He became doctor of canon law, and in 1335 received the prebendal stall of Clifton in the cathedral of Lincoln (Le Neve, Fasti (Hardy), ii. 132). On the death of Bishop Burghersh in December 1340 he succeeaed to the bishopric of Lincoln, being, it would seem, then at the papal court at Avignon. Though the royal assent was given to his election on 1 March 1341, his consecration was delayed by the pope till the next year (Murimuth, 115, apud Raine, Fasti Ebor. p. 439, note m), when it took place at Avignon on Sunday, 7 July 1342, at the same time with Archbishop Zouche of York. He obtained letters of protection to come to England from Rome, and the temporalities of the see were restored to him on 17 Sept. (Pat. 16 Edw. III, p. 3, m. 20). His episcopate lasted only five years. He died on 2 Feb. 1346-7, and in his will, which is extant, he desired to be buried on the north side of the steps leading from the chapter-house to the choir.
[Le Neve's Fasti (ed. Hardy), ii. 14; Godwin, De Præsul. i. 295; Harl. MS. 3720.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beighton, Henry

​BEIGHTON, HENRY (d. 1743), an eminent surveyor and engineer, came from a family of yeomen which had been long settled at Chilvers Coton in Warwickshire. He himself resided at Griff, a hamlet in the same parish, where he assisted a small income of about 100l. a year by surveying, in which, for elegance, accuracy, and expedition, he is said to have had but few equals. Beighton is now best remembered as the illustrator of Dr. Thomas's edition of Dugdale's 'Warwickshire,' the maps in which are taken from an actual survey made by him during a period of four years, from 1725 to 1729. Among other drawings published by him may be mentioned a small view of the south-east side of Fairford Church, Gloucescestershire, 1715, a north prospect of St. Michael's Church, Coventry, about 1721, and in the same year a view of the beautiful cross at Coventry, built after the model of that at Abingdon in 1544. Besides these he made, in 1716, a large finished drawing of Kenilworth Castle, with manuscript references, from a fresco occupying the whole side of a room at Newnham Paddox, a seat of the Earl of Denbigh. This was copied at the expense of John Ludford, Esq., of Ansley Hall, but was not engraved.
About 1720 Beighton had issued proposals for publishing a map of Warwickshire, 'on two sheets of large paper, about forty-three inches deep and thirty broad,' at the moderate price of five shillings in sheets, but he met with so little encouragement that the design was not carried into effect during his lifetime. The map was ultimately published by subscription, about 1750, in two sheets, with the several emendations left by the author, as also the same map reduced to a single sheet. Both editions are now of rare occurrence. Beighton's map is laid down by English measured miles, reduced to horizontal, by his own hand. He measured both with the chain and compass, and set down the medium scale. In 1713 Beighton succeeded John Tipper, of Coventry, in the editorship of the 'Ladies' Diary,' which he conducted with much success until his death. In his prefaces to that ingenious compilation, 'peculiarly adapted for the Use and Diversion of the Fair Sex,' he speaks of his gallant endeavours to introduce his readers to the study of the mathematical sciences. In 1718 he erected a steam-engine at Newcastle with an improved valve (Thurston's Hist. of the Steam Engine (1878), 61-3, where is a figure of Beighton's engine). In November 1720 he became a fellow of the Royal Society, and was a valued contributor to the 'Philosophical Transactions.' His 'Description of the Water Works at London Bridge' (Phil. Trans,. xxxvii. 5-12) is a favourable specimen of his skill in mechanics. He also assisted his friend, Dr. Desaguliers, in the second volume of his 'Course of Experimental Philosophy.' A few of Beighton's scientific manuscripts and note-books are preserved in the British Museum. Dying in October 1743, aged 57, he was buried on the 11th at Chilvers Coton, where a small mural tablet mentions his death but not his merits.
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beilby, Ralph

​BEILBY, RALPH (1744–1817), engraver, was the son of William Beilby, a jeweller and goldsmith at Durham, who, being unsuccessful in business there, removed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Ralph became a silversmith, jeweller, and seal-engraver under his father, and acquired several useful arts and accomplishments. To the engraving of arms and letters on seals and silver plate he added engraving on copper, as there were at that time no engravers in the north of England. He executed heraldic engravings with extraordinary facility, and his plate of 'Thornton's Monument,' in Brand's 'History of Newcastle,' shows that he possessed considerable skill in engraving on copper. The celebrated Thomas Bewick was apprenticed to him in 1767, and ten years afterwards became his partner. This partnership was dissolved in 1797, and the business then devolved on Bewick alone. Beilby was distinguished for his literary and scientific pursuits, and was also a good musician. He was one of the earliest and most zealous promoters of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle. Beilby engraved the beautiful frontispiece to Gay's 'Fables' (Newcastle, 1779), and he was engaged with Bewick in executing the engravings for Osterwald's edition of the Bible (Newcastle, 1806). He wrote the descriptive part of the 'History of Quadrupeds,' illustrated by Bewick (1790; 8th ed. 1824), and of the first volume of the 'History of British Birds,' also illustrated by Bewick (1797; 8th ed.; 1847). Beilby died at Newcastle on 4 Jan. 1817, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
[Cat. of Works illustrated by T. and J. Bewick, 2, 4, 6, 10, 13, 14, 18, 22, 28, 24, 31, 34; Sykes's Local Records (1833), ii. 380; Cat. of Printed books in Brit. Mus.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Binns, John

​BINNS, JOHN (1772–1860), journalist and politician, was the son of an ironmonger in Dublin, and was born on 22 Dec. 1772. In his second year he lost his father, who left behind him a considerable property. After receiving a good education, first at a common school, and afterwards at a classical academy, he was in 1786 apprenticed to a soapboiler. At the request of his elder brother, who inherited the estate of his father, he accompanied him in 1794 to London, where for some months he acted as his assistant in the plumbing business. Shortly after his arrival in London he became a member of the London Corresponding Company, which was afterwards an influential political association. In 1797 he hired a large room in the Strand for political debates, a charge of one shilling being made for admission. On account of his connection with the schemes of the United Irishmen, the grand jury of the county of Warwick found a true bill against him, but after trial he was acquitted. On 21 Feb. 1798 he left London for France, but was arrested at Margate, and after an examination by the privy council he was committed to the Tower. At Maidstone he was tried, along with Arthur O'Connor, for high treason, but acquitted. Shortly afterwards he was arrested and confined in Clerkenwell Prison, whence he was transferred to Gloucester, where he remained till March 1801. In July following he embarked for America. Proceeding to Northumberland, Pennsylvania, he in March 1802 began there a newspaper, ‘The Republican Argus,’ by which he acquired great influence among the republican party, not only in Northumberland but in the neighbouring counties. In March 1807 he removed to Philadelphia to edit the ‘Democratic Press,’ which soon ​became the leading paper in the state. In December 1822 he was chosen alderman of the city of Philadelphia, an office which he held till 1844. He died at Philadelphia on 16 June 1860.
[Recollections of John Binns— Twenty-nine years in Europe and Fifty-three in the United States— written by himself. Philadelphia. 1854.]
T. F. H.