(1) With reference to the memoria! of Yii Lit, Military Governor of Féngt'ien, requesting us to appoint a day for the com: mencement of work on the repairs to the Ancestral Throne Hall for the Regulation of Government, at Moukden, let the Imperial Board of Astronomy pick out a lucky day for the purpose and let Yi Lit and his colleague the Assistant Military Governor Feng Sin go reverently to work on the day to be appointed by the Astronomical Board for the work in hand, in accordance with the plans already presented to us.
Li, requesting us to appoint a day during' the present month for the commencement of the work on the repair to be made on the Ancestral Mausolea of Yung-ling and Chao-ling, at Moukden, let the Imperial Board of Astronomy select a lucky day for the purpose and let Yii Lit and his colleague Feng Sin reverently set to work on the day appointed in accordance with the plans already presented to us.
(3). We regret to learn through Liu K'un-yi of the death of our faithful servant, the Brigadier-General of Kua-chou, Wu Chia-pang, at his post at Kuachou. The deceased officer had had considerable experience in the service of his country having been in no less than over a hundred battles, having commenced his career in the fifties. He is vow dead and merits the full extent of our sympathies for his family. Let the grant of a full-fledged Provincial Commandi -in-Chief who has died at his post be given to his family as a special act of gra from us, and let his deeds be recorded in the history of the country by the Imperial Historiogtaphers. Let also his tablet. placed in the temple dedicated to the late eng Yii-lin, now at the deceased officer's home in Hunan, as well as in the temple dedicated for the purpose at Ts'aishichi in the province of Anhui, as a mark of his master's appreciation of a faithful and brave servant.—Let the proper yamen also take note.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.