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Rh occassionally acting for the Chief Secretary. In October 1913, Mr. Yu was appointed a Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Justice A month later he was promoted to be a councillor of the Ministry. In December 1913 he was commissioned to be a member of the Commission for the Punishment of High Officials and also appointed a member of the Political Council created by Yuan Shih-kai after the dissolution of the First Parliament. In January 1914 he received another concurrent position as member of the Civil Service Commission. In May 1914 he joined the President's Office as a secretary. In March 1915 Mr. Yu was ordered to take charge of the work of translating laws from foreign languages into Chinese. In December 1915 he was chief compiler of law procedures. In the meantime he was still holding the post of councillor of the Ministry of Justice. In January 1918 he was appointed an examiner of the Judicial Service Commission. In June 1918 he was sent to Honan to make a careful investigation of the condition of the prisons in that province. In September 1918 he was awarded the Second Class Chiaho and in October 1918 the Third Class Wenfu decoration. In March 1919 Mr. Yu was appointed a councillor of the bureau in charge of the enemy properties, Peking. In Jauary 1920 he received two decorations, the Second Class Wenfu and the Second Class Tashou Chiaho. In October 1920 he was appointed in the capacity of a councillor to act as Vice-Minister of Justice. In the same month he was made a member of the Judicial Commission for the Chinese Eastern Railway. In February 1921 Mr. Yu was awarded the Second Class Paokuang Chiaho and also Chief Examiner of the Judicial Service Commission. In March 1921 he was appointed Acting Vice-Minister of Justice which position he held until December 1921 when he was awarded the Second Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho. He was appointed Director of the Law Codifiication Commission, in January 1922 but he did not accept this appointment of which he was officially relieved at the end of that month.