Chii_Hung-chi is promoted to the rank of Recorder of the Hanlitt Academy and Ch'en Chao-wen is appointed Reader of the same institution.
(2) Appointing a number of officials to provincial administrations.
(8) With reference to the memorial of the Court of Sacrificial Worship announcing that the 11th of February next (12th moon 25th day) will be nearly the end of the present (Chinese) lunar year and that it is customary on such an occasion to sacrifice at the Ancestral tablets we hereby proclaim it to be our purpose to proceed in person on that day to worship at these sacred tablets and we also appoint the nobles Hsieh Kuang to sacrifice in our stead at the Eastern side altars and Teh Shou at the Western side altars on the above shuld be offend on the ame day to the (4) With respect to the sacrifices whic
Presiding Deity of the year then about to close we hereby appoint the Court officer K'uei Pin to lead the ceremonies while the Court officers Ch'ing Fu and Kuei Hsien are to assist at the eastern and western side altars, respectively.
(6) The Boards of Civil Appointments and War are commanded to report on the memor of the Captain-General of Gendarmerie who has presented to us a list of deserving civil an' military officers who have distinguished themselves by their energy and courage in capturing notorious desperadoes and brigands during the year now about to close.
(6) The yamen of the Peking Gendarmerie reports the capture by gendarmes. of three members of a gang of desperadoes for whose heads rewards have been proclaimed for a long time. They are to be at once handed to the Board of Punishments for trial and punishment, and a strict search must be made for the remaining two members who have so far succeded in evading capture. As soon as the said Board shall have tried and sentenced the captured criminals the Captain. General of Gendarmerie is commanded to send us list of the officers and men who have distinguished themselves in making the above captores in order that they may be suitably rewarded as an encouragement future deeds of courage and valour against the desperate characters infesting the metropolitan prefecture of Shuntienfu (Peking).
19th January.
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