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Having accomplished all these transactions, I took train to Nanking, where all necessary official documents were obtained in about two days' time.

When this matter was brought before the Executive Committee of the Provincial Government of Honan for discussion, there was not without some difficulty.  Serious objection to this undertaking was raised on the ground that the Provincial Government had only recently promulgated a law forbidding any curio-digging, which was, by the way, due to the publicity work that I [[strikethrough]]have[[/strikethrough]] ^[[had]] done, portraying the wantonness of the destruction of antiquities that I observed on my way to Lo-yang.  As this law forbids only private diggings, obviously it could not be applied to the scientific undertaking of an official Institute.  Thru the kind office of Mr. Chang Fang(張鈁), Chief of the Bureau of Construction, and Mr. Cha Liang-chao(查良釗), Chief of the Bureau of Education, the matter successfully passed thru the committe meeting.  The Provincial Government immediately did three things: (1) giving the permit, (2) instructing the magistrate of An-yang to give all the necessary accommodation, (3) appointing two members to participate this work, they were: Chang Hsi-chin(張錫晉) of the Provincial Government, and Kuo Pao-chün(郭寶鈞) of the Bureau of Education.

Thus the personnel of the first Digging Party at Yin-hsü consists of the ^[[following]] members:

1. Tung Tso-ping, of the National Research Institute and Director of the party.
2. Chang Hsi-chin, of the Provincial Government.
3. Kuo Pao-chün, of the Bureau of Education, Provincial Government.
4. Li Ch'un-i, Surveyor.

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