We hereby appoint the Grand Secretary Lia Shu (Manchu), Comptroller-General, and Wong T'ung-ho, President, respeotively, of the Board of Revenue; Hsii Ying-k'nei. President of the Board of Works; Ch'i Hsin (Manchu), President of the Mongolian Superintendency; Hsii Shu-ming and Yang Yi, Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents, respectively, of the Board of War; Li Tuan-fen, Senior Vice-Pr siden* of the Board of Punishments; Ch'en. Hsia fen, Junior Vice-President of the Board of Revenue; Mien Yi (Manchu), Senior Vice-President of the Mongolian Superintendency, and Tang Chin-chung, sub-Chancellor of the Grand Secreta+iat, to be judges and to look over the essays of the competitors for posts as Literary Chanellorsand Assistant Literary Cancel lors in the provinces, at the forthcoming examinations in the Paoho Throne-hall.
19th May.
We have perused the memorial of the Censor Chit Cheng-kuang, recommending train innovations with' r-gard tthe storing of reserve grain in the various provineial cities of the Empire. Te B ard of R venue ix hereby commanded to tike the matter under consideration and report to us the result of their deliberations thereon.
20th May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.