The following motion has been issued by the Shanghai Magistrate. Huang, an officer bearing the brevet button of a Salt Commissioner, a 4th-class Taotai awaiting selection and district magistrate of Shanghai, hereby issues this proclamation to all whom it may concern:—I have received a communication from Ch'enshihchien, a foreign missionary, complaining of the riotous conduct of the son of a man named Lu living at Kaochiahong, in this district, and requesting that steps be taken to punish the delinquent. While on the one hand I have sent orders to arrest the tipno of the place to punish him, on the other, I find it incumbent to issue this prohibitory proclamation warning all the inhabitants from listening to malicious rumours and being influenced to stir up disturbances against the missionaries, for you will only be made to suffer for your rashness. You must also know that the missionaries of various western countries have permission by Treaty to propagate their faith and erect chapels anywhere in China. This has lasted a long time and harmony has generally reigned throughout. Let, therefore each one of you, the father teach his sons and the elder brother instruct his younger brethren, to use your best endeavours to become' law-abiding citizens and on no account join the reckless in raising disturbances against the missionaries. Condign punishment will be visited upon those who break the Inws, while the tipao of each ward who has failed in his duty to exhort the people in the vicinity will be visited with double punishment for his neglect.
19th August, 1896,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.