Shen Ping-ch'én, Governor of Anhui, reports that owing to the disturbances of the society men in 1891 "long the Yangtze, he received permission of the Throne to raise 1,000 men, These were divided, 800 men into the new right and left battalions of the Governor's guards and the remaining 200 men into the yamen special guards. As the disturbances in question have been quelled and there is no further need of the new battalions memorialist proposes, from motives of economy, to disband the left battalion of his guards as well as the yamen special yuards, giving them each one month's extra pay to pay their passage to their native villages. He still keeps one battalion on hand in case of emergency, Dut if everything keeps on as quietly as usual he intends also to disband it next year.—Lesesipt: Let the proper yamen tuke note, 9th June.
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