Gendarmerie is hereby ordered to select a body of picked and trustworthy soldiers for duty to patrol the streets in the vicinity of the foreign legations. They are commanded to arrest any person or persons seeking to raise a disturbance within those NEW APPOINTMENTS, (8) Hsii Hui-yao is appointed acting Senior Vice-President of the Board of Rites.
(4) Li Hai-huan, Minister to Germany, is further appointed Chief Director of the Court of Imperial Banquets.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.