The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-23

! dishes by tasting and 100 blows if he introduced any prohibited ingredients | into the dishes by inadvertence. If the
 dispensing officer or the cook or physi-
 elan introduced any unusual drug or food he was punished with 100 blows
 and compelled to swallow the same. If the subordinates having in charge 1 the imperial equipage or the royal | pleasure boats and other vessels failed to keep them in as good order as the l emperor desired the received from i forty to a hundred lashes. | When his majesty pleased to make presents to the officers of his govern ment, if the officer deputed to execute
 his command did not perform in per- | son the duties assigned him, but on
 the contrary transmitted the presents
 to be delivered by other hands, he was punished with 100 blows and rendered ! incapable of holding an yemployment
 in the government service. If a superintendent vexatiously de- tained officers of the government from
 the imperial presence when summoned,
 he was condemned to death and be- | headed
 Political machines had a hard time l getting foothold in China these rays except the machine which the emperor
 run himself. If any person or officer of the state prompted by unprincipled ambition, upon colorable pretexts, so- licited places or employment for either himself or friends, he was punished with 100 blows
 If an army officer raised a monu- ment to himself advertising himself as hero. when in fact he had performed no service to the state worthy of such commemoration he got 100 cracks across the back
 The Chinese government had sumpt- uary laws relative to dress and habits. Every house had to be furnished &C., cording to regulations. There was a rule governing the equipment of car riages, the character of dress used by the people and the violater of the rules and regulations received fifty blows. Conjurors and fortune tellers were prohibited from prohesying any im- pending national calamities or success es under a penalty of 100 blows. This law was not intended to prevent them from telling fortunes by the stars.
 Any person found guilty of crime and all his relatives were held to be forever incapable of holding any public office and if such a person or a relative concealed the circumstance and took an office he was beheaded when the fact had become known.
 Bribery in public office was capital
 
 offense and the officials was beheaded.
 All persons guilty of sealing the walls of the Imperial citadel, in Picking, were strangled to death. If this law is still enforced in China the emperor failed to execute it two years ago when the American soldiers sealed it and took charge of the palace.
 It was treason to attempt to subvert the established government; to attempt to destroy his majesty's palace or the tornbs in which the remains of his an- cestors are desposited. This was pun ishable by slow and painful execu- tion--cutting the body into 10000 diff ferent pieces.
 Writers of magic books were banish- ed or beheaded.
 Persons guilty of sacrilege were giv- en 100 blows and brhnded on the arm.
 Footpads were given 100 blows and then banished or beheaded.
 When banks failed their officers were dashed 200 times and then be- failures in China.
 Blackmailers received 100 blows and were beheaded. There were not many cases of blackmail in China.
 Kidnapping, where the victim was wounded or abused, was punishable by strangulation. Few Kidnapping cases were ever reported.
 If a government officer or other per- son represented to another that the floor of a bridge was safe when it was not, and represented that river ford was shallow when it was deep and full of mud, he was beheaded.
 Any person who by violent threats drove another to suicide was given 100 blows and either beheaded or strangled.
 If q Chinaman knew of a plot to in- jure or humilate another Chinaman, and failed to tell him of it, he received 100 blows.
 When wife struck husband she received 100 blows and her husband was entitled to a divorce. She suffered the same punishment if she struck her mother-in-laW
 Users of abusive language were pun ished with. ten blows. There was not much cussing done in China-cussing out loud
 The promotion of litigation by snitehes was considered bribery and was punishable by 100 blows and inn prisonment or death, according to the 1 degree of the crime.
 An official who contracted to receive l a brihe for piece of work to be done 1 by him was given 100 blows and inn prisonment or banished.
 When 9 judge of the court rendered Q 1 decision and pronounced judgment and 1 afterward upset it he was called to ac- count. He was required to pay twelve | times the amount of the judgment out | of his own pocket and I0Sa 1oiS inh |