(4) We issued yesterday a special Kaict riting privilege to the substantive vincial Treasurers, Judges, Taotais, and Prefects of the Empire to memorialise in their own persons to the Throne on any subject affecting the question of Reform and ings that may be of benefit to the masses. We further granted the same privilege to fects, depart ent and district magistrates, officials holding substantive posts as subprein the Empire, but with the proviso that their memorials should be sent to us through their immediate Viceroys and Governors, who, however, are prohibited from opening any of the memorials and are commanded to send them under their original sealed enclosures to Peking on pain of our severe Aispleasure. The above decree we further commanded all our Viceroys and Governors to notify to their subordinates. We, however, desire now to grant a further privilege, snd that is, to allow the common people and scholars without official rauk throughout our Empire to do the same, and their memorials are to be forwarded straight to the Throne through their respective local
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