(1) Ch'i Yao (Manchu) is appointed Grain Taotai of Fukien province vice Hu Ting-kan promoted Provincial Judge of Hunan.
(2) On the 17th instant we commanded Prince Ching and other Princes of the Imperial House to sacrifice on our behalf at the various Imperial temples in supplication for much-needed rain in Peking and its dependencies. Unfortunately no rain has as yet fallen, and we therefore command the same Princes to go to the same temples on the 28th instant to supplicate again for rain on our behalf.
27th September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.