(3) T'ang-chiung makes the following application. Having lately been appointed rector of Mining Affairs in Yunnan, he has frequent occasion to correspond with the Governor-General and the Governor on the subject, and to give due weight to his communications, it is necessary that he should be provided with an official seal. He has accordingly had a wooden seal cut Dearing his title as Director of Mines, with the brevet rank of Governor, which he asks permission to use for the future,
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