(1) Ho Té-piao is appointed Bri Gevieral of the Tingchou Division of Fukien province vice Sung T8-sheng, deceased.
(2) The post of protect of Ch'uanchou, (Amoy prefect) Fukien, being now vacant, and as it is a very important post we hereby command the Viceroy of said province to select the man best fitted for it from amongst all the substantive prefects of the province and let the post vacated by the said Viceroy's choice be given to Lu Hsia-liang.
28th August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.