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Page 79
... officials were sent to collect taxes , set- tle disputes , or recruit able - bodied men for service . The prefectures were themselves subdivided into districts . The commanderies included a number of nobilities , the hold- ers of which ...
... officials were sent to collect taxes , set- tle disputes , or recruit able - bodied men for service . The prefectures were themselves subdivided into districts . The commanderies included a number of nobilities , the hold- ers of which ...
Page 99
... officials - whose function was to provide separate channels of information and to check up on the administrative branches . Similar checks and balances existed in the diffused net- work of regional officials . The empire was divided ...
... officials - whose function was to provide separate channels of information and to check up on the administrative branches . Similar checks and balances existed in the diffused net- work of regional officials . The empire was divided ...
Page 104
... officials by instituting a variety of devices to encourage officials and prospective officials to learn the law and to certify that those in office did have some familiarity with things legal . There was an increase in the writing and ...
... officials by instituting a variety of devices to encourage officials and prospective officials to learn the law and to certify that those in office did have some familiarity with things legal . There was an increase in the writing and ...
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