The Archive · 1900

IMPERIAL DECREES

(2) Chtung Hsun is granted the brevet rank of an Assistant Military Governor, and is hereby appointed Imperial Resident at Ktobdo, Mongolia, vice Pao ch'ang on for misdemeanours.

(2) In considemtion of the extreme rigour of this winter, and tilled with pity for our poor subjects who have to under trials, I, the Empress Dowager ete., hereby connnand jurisdictions. Cases that can easily that the sum of Tls. 10,000 be issued from the Treasury of the Imperial Household Department and given to the Governor of d the Censors of the Five Cities of the capital to make warm cotton-wadded clothing for distribution amongst the poor.

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