Li Pei-yung is appointed Major of the Right Battalion of the Viceregal troops of Chihli province, No papers of interest.
25th March, IMPERIAL DECREES, (1) We have received a memorial from Wang Ting-siang, a censor, complaining bitterly of the laxity of the regulations and system of organised frauds in the Imperial schools specially established for the primary, and higher education of children belonging to the Imperial Clan and the Collateral Branches (glove), and: praying, that commands be issued insisting on a thorough overhaul of existing regulations and the establishment of stringent rules for future guidance of all concerned. ete. We hereby command the members of the Imperial Clan Court to act conjointly with the Imperial Schools' Board aid consider the memorial in question and report to us the result.
(2) Shih Kang, Senior Brigadier of Jeho, who is now in' Peking, is ordered to do duty in the capital, while Yen Tseng is appointed to fill the said Shih Kang's place in Jeho.
(3) Of those officials belonging to. the various Courts in the capital who, were presented in audience to us this niorning on the basis of their three years' official record, we hereby command that Ch'ing Fu, Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship, San Ta, Vice-Director of the Court of Revision—a branch of the Court of Censors,—and Li Té-cli'ang, Vice-Direofor of the Imperial College of. Physicians, be ordered to return to their present posts and attend to their several duties as heretofore.
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