The author’s administrative papers as prefect of Yuezhou 岳州 (from 6^th month, 1799, j. 1-2), Changsha 長沙 (from 7^th month, 1800, j. 3), and Hengzhou 衡州 (from 8^th month, 1801, j. 4-5), all in Hunan. Title in chapter captions Jingyang Zhang gong liren Yue Chang Heng sanjun fengxing lu 涇陽張公歷任岳長衡三郡風行錄. The documents include directives to subordinates as well as proclamations and prohibitions to the gentry and commoners. Some are on standard topics like gambling, slaughtering oxen, instigating lawsuits, suicide, or cheating at local examinations; others are more specific to the environment of the watery and highly commercial Hunan lowlands and contain rich detail on taxes and tribute, tenant rent delinquency, commerce and brokerage, ports and transportation, boat administration and “life-saving boats” (救生船), bandit lairs near the creeks and lakes, prohibition of rice exports and encouragement of charity by the rich in years of bad harvest, and more. The last 14 entries in j. 5 are responses to complaints (詞批), several dealing with commercial matters or abuses in fiscal administration. The entire text provides a rich description of the economy and society of the region at the turn of the nineteenth century, and of the efforts of an activist administrator to reform bad practices. The xuji, in 2 j., introduces similar materials corresponding to the author’s stints as prefect of Yuezhou and Changsha.