We have received the memorial of Prince Ching asking us to appoint a Director-General for the projected railway between Tientsin and Chinkixng and we hereby appoint Hu Yii-fen to the post. But as the said Vice-President of a Board has also the Director-Generalship of the Tientsin-Soochow and Tientsin-Shanhai-Kuan railways he will not be able alone to attend lo the whole work and we therefore appoint as his assistant the Tuotai Chang Yen-mao who is hereby promoted to the rank of a Metropolitan expectant official of the 4th grade,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.