(1) Wu Shu-mei is appointed sub-Chan-jeeller of the Grand Secretariat with the brevet rank of a Vice-President of the Board of Rites.
Te'ui Ting-kuei_is appointed Bri-madier-General of the Ts'aochou Circuit of Shantung province.
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(8) That strict care should be exorcised to prevent outside-rs from entering the precinets of the Forbidden City" is clear to every one, in addition to which orders have been constantly issued commanding the officers in charge of the guards to patrol the sacred precincts and' environs carefully and watchfully. In spite, huweer, of this outsiders and loafers have been frequently observed in the Forbidden Note.—When the Empress Dowager usurped the Throne, she and her friends intended to make away with the Emperor and so published this decree asking for physicians to be sent.up to Peking as soon as possible. This was to prepare the country at large that the Emperor was seriously ill and requiring immediate medical aid, so that when his Majesty was indeed made away with there need be no surprise felt \ddeiiness of his demise ' through Translator.
26th September, 1898.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.