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 OBaBBHESaBVa 368 GOYEBNMENT. Chinese, Daoijung — " Left * or Senior Councillor." The third is Yow Sicmg — ^in Chinese, Woaijung — "Right or Junior Councillor/' The Corean king, like his imperial Chinese majesty, has three queens— chief, left, and right — each in a separate palace, and with a separate establishment The Left councillor superintends the left palace, and the right the right palace. When a new king is proclaimed, or the choice of the heir to the throne is to be ratified by the emperor, the chief councillor is the ambassador to Peking. A Panaie or Tsatnpan is head of the ordinary tribute bearers. Dso and Tow Tsandsan, or Left and Right Tsandsan, are ministers inferior to the three councillora The Li Pan, President; Li Tsan, Senior Vice-President; and the Li Ti, Junior Vice- President of Board of Appointments, complete the list of the eight members forming the Privy Council, or " Inner " Government The chiefs of the other departments or boards are ''Hoc," or Ho Pan, or Pa/nsie, President of Revenue ; Li Pan or Pansie, of Rites ; Bing Panaie, of War ; Hing Pansie, of Punishment ; Goong or Gong Pansie, of Works. These six are each assisted by a Vice-President or Tsampan, and a Taa/me or Secretary. The Pan is of the second grade, the Tsampan of the third, and the Tsame of the fourth. The eighteen members forming the six departments are called the " General Council " of the king ; but the first three, corporately called Jiungaung, hold the real power. Each of the six departments, however, has a body of soldiers and a mint of its own. M. Dallet, in his "Church in Corea," calls the presidents "Pantao"; but my Corean book authority calls them merely "Pan," while my Corean teacher calls them '* Pa/naie," Tao is the name given, in the book to which I refer, to the officea of the various departments — as Bingato, offices of Board of War ; Litao, offices of Board of Appointments &c. Though therefore M. Dallet had doubtless some authority for his rendering, I prefer to follow the Corean book published by the authority of the Corean Government
 * " Left *' is plAoe of honour, adopted from Cbinese.