(1) Kuo Lé-ming is transferred to the Commandership of the Yellow Banner of the Imperial Guards, and Pug Shou is appointed to a similar post in the Blue Banner of the same corps.
(2) Sé Ling-nieh is appointed Director of the Imperial Cortige Department.
(3) Chin Ch'ang is transferred to the Lieutenant-Generalship of the Bordered White Manchu Banner Corps vice Keng Ying-pu, deceased, and P'u Lun is appoint. ed to be Lieutenant-General of the Mongo-lion Bordered Yellow Banner Corps vice Chin Ch'ang promoted as above.
(4) Yung Lung is transferred to the Lieutenant-Generalship of the Bordered Blue Manchu Banner Corps and Prince Tsai Ying, 4th Order, is appointed Lieutenant-General of the Bordered Yellow Hanchun (Chinese) Banner Corps.
(5) With reference to the memorial of Tao Mu, acting Viceroy of the Shen-Kan provinces, requesting that certain newly raised regiments in Kansu be recorded in the Board of War, etc., we must remind the said memorialist that in every province when it happens that new regiments are raised, attention should be first given to the question of ways and means to provide for the pay of the new troops, and hence care should be observed to report these matters to the Throne for approval. Now the new regiments mentioned in-T'ao Mu's memorial were raised last year by the ex-Viceroy Yang Ch'ang-chun, at the time when he required reinforcements to fight the Mahommedan rebels. The said ex-Viceroy, however, neglected to report the raising of the new troops to the Throne, thereby show-culpable negligence in his duties. Yang Ch'ang-chun is, therefore, ordered to be handed to the Board of Civil Appointments for the determination of an adequate penalty for his misdemeanour, and we farther command T'ao Mu to use diligence in weeding out the new regiments with the object of economizing the military expenditure of the province over which he now presides.
16th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.