 | Pao Chao Hsieh - China - 1925 - 448 pages
...extra-legal ways of acquiring and exercising power were naturally substituted for constitu-J tional provisions. All powers given by law or favor of the...the secret memorials transmitted by the ministers be.34 The degree of secrecy employed in the business of this influential body can be best illustrated... | |
 | Pao Chao Hsieh - Business & Economics - 1966 - 442 pages
...while headed by Prince Ching: for sometime, two of the five Councilors were from the Imperial clan ; 23 while upon other occasions, four of the five were...and use of the official seal described in the Shu Iluan Chi Loh." The Silver Seal (of the Council of State) is kept in the Imperial Safe. The ranking... | |
 | Pao Chao Hsieh - Business & Economics - 1966 - 442 pages
...cases a secretary was appointed special envoy. Indeed, so great was their * Princes Chlng and Yu Lang. power in proportion to their position that a special...and use of the official seal described in the Shu Euan Chi Loft.25 The Silver Seal (of the Council of State) is kept in the Imperial Safe. The ranking... | |
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Lang. power in proportion to their position that a special law was enacted to forbid the brother or son of a Metropolitan or provincial official of third rank or above to be appointed as secretary of the Council for fear of putting the official in a specially... 