We. translate. the following Imperin! Edict which was issued. on the 13th instant The other day we issued a special edict commending copyright: and patent privily egos to our subjects, coupled with a promise to substantially reward in " special manner the most brilliant and talented authors of books and inventors of machinery and works of utility, as well as such as had conspicuously distinguished themselves in the establishment of schools and colleges in the Empire. In connection with this we also commanded the Tsungli Yam6n to consult upon the system-of rewards to be given and report at once to us. The said report is now before us in which the Prince and Ministers of the said Yamen have handed up to us a schedule of rewards, such as patents of hereditary nobility, substantive official ranks and posts, brevet buttons, permission to reap the sole pecuniary benefits arising from authorship or invention, and, lastly, the presentation: of cul istic tablets written by the Imperial to such as prefer them in proportion to the degree of value of such authorship invention, or establishment of schools or colleges. "The above schedule seems to us to be practical enough and covering the object in view, and we, therefore, hereby grant our consent to the same being immediately put into operation and notified to the various high provincial authorities for public information by means of pro-Clamations, embodying the schedule of re-peril approval and consent. Great care, wards which have this day received the Im-
however, should be taken that only the really deserving be rewarded, thereby encouraging true genius and meri
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