(1) Appointing seventy-nine successful Tartar and Chinese licentiates to be expectant metropolitan officials of the 7th grade, and seventy-nine others, standing in the second class, to be either petty provincial expectants of the 8th and 9th grades, or assistant district-directors of studies. Liberty to choose either one or the other being granted by the Emperor, upon candidates presenting themselves before the Board of Civil Appointments on a certain day to be specified by the said Board.
We have received a memorial from the Assistant Grand Secretary Sun Chia nai, eulogising the steps taken by Wang Tsung-chi, First-class Secretary of the Board of Revenue, and others to forma society or club called Hui Wen-tang, with quarters in the Northern City of the Capital, furnished at their own expense, with text-books, scientific models, etc., where, with the help of salaried instructors, they intend to commence studying Western books and to keep posted in present day events tal lace throughout the universe. The memorialist suggests that the Imperial approval remade Known to these earnest students in order to encourage others in emulating such praiseworthy examples. We gladly give our approval to the abovementioned action of the said Secretary, and hereby authorise the memorialist to transmit the same to the persons concerned. with the hope that many others will do likewise, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
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