(2) The following Prince and Ministers shall constitute the Board of Commissioners to supervise the giving of rewards in money, jadestones, embroidered purse ete, and promotions of the year to the deserving officers and gentry connected with the gendarmerie and train bands of ti sidents Ch'i Hsin and Hsi Chin and the Captain-General Cha-la-feng-a.
(2) There isa regulation requiring soldiers belonging to the metropolitan batt who have obtained loans of advanced pay from the Treasury department of the Board of Revenue to py interest on the said loans every term. Nuw in consideration of the hard times and severe weather of this year, we hereby ordain that as an extra mark of Imperial bounty that two months' grace be granted for the payment of said interest due the 12ch moon of this year and the 1st moon of next.
(3) Yun Yen-ping, ex-Literary Chanerl-Junior Vice-President of the Board of lor in the provinces, is hereby appointed
Works, and let Wu Ting-fon act in that capacity ad interim wail the said Ytin Yon-ping arrives at Peking.
(4) Asi Hui-li is transferred to the Junior Vice-Presidency of the Board of Rites and Ch'en Hsia-fen is hereby commanded to act for him ad interim until Hei Hui-li arrives at Peking from the PYG) Ya Lien-yean is hereby appointed prov
be Salt Commissioner (Intendant) of Fu-
ADDITIONAL MEN TO COPE WITH THE JEHO
MOUNTED BANDITS, Ch'ung Li, Military Governor of Jeho, reports that on a former occasion he had reason to memorialise the Throne on the increase of brigandage in Jeho which ce: ers a large tract of hill and unpopula'ed territory, including the extensive hunting parks of the Emperor. In consequence of this and the terror inspired by these dating Urigands—who are all well mounted and well armed—upon the mercantile classes of Chibli and Fengtien, who are in the habit of sending Valuxble cargoes, rid Jeho to and fro, from Chibi into Maneluria and ties rersd. a large trade has been considerably diminished and is almest_on the verge of being entirely stopped unless adequate protection can be arranged to oppose the mounted bandits, Memorinlist then asked for and received the sanction of his Majesty to increase the military patrols and stations along the tradal route leading into Manchuria by which the proper strength of the Jeho garrison need not diminished and giving the authorities the advantage of having a strong body of troops ready to proceed en masse to any part of the country whenever occasion required. With this in view memorialist organised mounted police corps' consisting of a picked body of 100 well-armed troopers from the regular garrison, and transformed the corps of the usual 200 foot soldiers belonging to the Imperial Hunting Parks into a company of 100 strong and hardy young: troopers armied in the atest manner; and also enlisted 250 young men from the Tartar families in the plains, strong, hardy and in the flush of manhood who, by the way, have recently proved themselves energetic and anxious to have a brush with the bandits wherever they can find them. This lust corps will be a special body whose duty will be to patrol the whole country in strong detachments, In addition to this 200 cavalry and 250 for soldiers iemo-Tialist has also organised another battalion of 20 cavalry, all of whom have been un-dargoing daily drills after foreign methods with new and improved firearms, With this addition tw the Sighting strength of the territory and the institution of " special corps to dex! with the numerous mounted bandits in Jeho, memorialist is sanguine that it will take him but a short time to clear the territory of the pests.—Rescript Noted.
13th December.
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