(1) Appointinga number of officers to the Metropolitan and Provincial Admi-a Sh. as Gongor of the West ety. appointed Supervisin;
(3) Lu Kuang yao is appointed first police magistrate of the West city.
(4) Sis Ch'i-jung is appointed gaol-warden of the prison of the Northern cit (6) The other day the Hanlin Academy suggested that the funeral essays to be read next year at the tomb of Her Imperial Highness the late Princess Chun, at the Tstingming term (April) and the Chung-yuan term on the 15th day of the 7th moon (August) should be written in the same style as observed this yowt at HLR.H. the late Princess's funeral. We instructed the Board of Rites to deliberate over the memorial in question and the said Board now reports that the said Academy is entirely wrong in the matter as these events differ from each other. This is a most glaring error, and we hereby command that the Hanlins concerned in the matter be handed to the Board for determination of an adequate penasty. The Grand Secretaries Lin Shu and Hsii T'ung, who are also Presidents of the said Acedemy, are also tw be penalized for thur failure to discover the mistake of the Academy before presentation to the Throne.
P'u Lun is appointed Senior Assistant Commissioner of Octroi of the Chung-wen gate of Peking, and Tsai Ying is appoitited Junior Assistant Commissioner of the same for 1897, 9th December.
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