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 to the east, "a temporary exile." But all their lives they were excluded from distinction.

6. The Grand director of Music, having fully considered who were the most promising of the "completed scholars," reported them to the king, after which they were advanced to be under the minister of War, and called "scholars ready for employment ."

7. The minister of War gave discriminating consideration (to the scholars thus submitted to him), with a view to determine the offices for which their abilities fitted them. He then reported his decisions concerning the best and ablest of them to the king, to have that judgment fixed. When it was, they were put into offices. After they had discharged the duties of these, rank was given them; and, their positions being thus fixed, they received salary.

8. When a Great officer was dismissed as incompetent from his duties, he was not (again) employed in any office to the end of his life. At his death, he was buried as an (ordinary) officer.