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investigation of the Japanese legal system. In the end of 1913, Yuan Shih-kai, after having dissolved the Kuo-ming-tang and removed its members in the Parliament, organized a High Political Council. Mr. Shen was appointed a secretary of this Council. He served in a similar capacity to the conference called by Yuan Shih-kai in March 1914 for the sole purpose of revising the Provisional Constitution. In November 1914 he was appointed Magistrate of Shanghai. In 1919 he was appointed to be concurrently the Taotai or Prefect of the Hu-Hai Circuit, Kiangsu. He was awarded the Fourth Class Wenfu and the Third Class Paokuang Chiaho in June 1920, the Second Class Tashou Chiaho in January 1922 and the Third Class Wenhu in August 1923.
