(1) Fu Chien (Manchu) is appointed Taotai of the Jehd Intendancy of Chihli, vice Hong Shou (Manchu) appointed Deputy Civil Governor of Moukden.
(2) The Mongol Princes, Dukes and nobles (named) who have come to Peking from Mongolia to pay their annual cere-many of allegiance during the coming Now Year festivities, and who were received in audience before me, the Empress Dowager, this morning, are granted, by act of extra Imperial grace, the privilege of riding on horseback within the Precincts of the Western Palace-gates; and to use the Imperial barges in the lakes during their stay in the capital.
20th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.