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472 “Ching I” magazine. The old Parliament was reconvoked in June 1916 and Mr. Li returned to Peking and took his seat in the Senate. In June 1917 the Parliament was again dissolved and he returned to his home city of Canton and helped to establish the military government there and to call the extraordinary parliament. During the years of 1918 and 1919 he served as salt commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces. When General Chen Chung-ming reentered Canton in 1920, Mr. Li was appointed Special Commissioner of Finance, also taking charge of the Kwangtung Treasury, holding this position until November. The old Parliament was for the second time reconvoked in June 1922. Mr. Li became a Senator again. Mr. Li is the founder of the Public of Canton and is also the chief auditor of the Provincial Bank of Kwangtung. He was conferred the Second Class Chiaho in October 1922 and First Class Tashou Chiaho in April 1923.