(1) Mu Ch4i-hsien is appointed Taotai of the Ka'i-Kuei-Ch'en-hsi Intendancy of Honan province.
(2) We have this day received the instructions of HI M. the Empress-Dowager stating Her Majesty's sympathetic compassion for the sufferings of the famine-stricken people of the districts belonging to the Ch'uantung Intendancy of Szechuan (East Szechuan), as well as for those in the Western potion of Hupeh province who are suffering in a similar manner. The rea. son for this scarcity of grain and consequent famine is alleged to be a preponderating fall of rain in the autumn of last year, while in the winter following the weather' was too dry and without snow. H.L. M. the Empress-Dowager, wishing to show her compassion in a substantial way, commands, and we hereby confirm her order, that the sum of Tls. 100,000 for Szechuan' and Tls. 50,000 for Hupeh be drawn from the Treasury of the Privy Purse and remitted post-haste to Lu Ch'uan-lin and Chang Chih-tung, Viceroys of Szechuan and the Hukuang provinces, respectively, wie are hereby common led to make all' speed to send relief where it is most needed within their jurisdiction. In this way Her Imperial Majesty hopes that she may be instrumental in saving some of her faithful subjects' lices. In supplement ug Her Majesty's commands we would exhort the said Viceroys to deserve the confidence Her Majesty places in them and supplement the sympathy and compassion the Empress-Dowager has for our "black-haired" subjects by energetically and carefully carrying through the phus of relief in aid of the distressed agriculturists of these two provinces. For this is most important and the only way in which the people can partake of the Imperial bounty.
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