The usual decree granting liberty to have him buried according to the rites and ceremonials due to a Viceroy who has died in_harness—Li Han-chang being a retired offiver—and the erasing of all black marks in his official record. His eldest son Li Chin-vii, who is x Hanlin Academist, ix te be promoted as soon ax his perind of mourning is over, and the second son Li Chin-ts'a, an expectant Taotai of Kiangsu, is to he given a Taotaiship soon after his three years' mourning is over.
10th October.
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