Owing to the pretexts our Viceroys and Governors have recently made to excuse the delay they have been guilty of in obeying our commands to begin reform works in their various provinces, we hereby command that in future all our edicts will be sent by telegraph and that the said Viceroys and Governors are to obey our decrees immediately they receive such telegrams, without. waiting as heretofore for the arrival of said edicts, written out in full, by overland courier through the Board of War.
28th August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.