CHINA DAILY NEWs."
27th September.
Decree granting request of Li Hung-chang and his colleagues of the Grand Secretariat that the old rule of requiring secretaries of the Six Boards to take charge of all recommendations from the provines your issue of the 25th, I was: for the appointment, substantive as well astonished at what you had written under acting, of officials, before reporting said recommendations to the Throne and oh consent thereon, be changed and Vie and Governors of provinces be permitted tomemorialise directly to the Throne on all matters referring to the appointment of substantive and acting officials within their respective j s. This new procedure will Save much time and prevent unnecessary delay and inconvenience, All other matters State requiring the consent of the Throne are to be memorialised upon, as usual, through the Grand Secretariat.
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