The Archive · 1905

IMPERIAL DECREE

SPECIALLY TRANSLATED FOR THE "NORTH-

CHINA DAILY NEws."

25th April.

Decree stating that although the anxious to ameliorate the the land and is giving effect to the suggestions of Wu Ting-fang and Shen Chia-pen, who are engaged in re-ing same, the performance and inter-ion thereof must rest with the Governors of provine commanded to exhort to supplement the merciful intentions of the Throne, and anyone disobeying the new Inws is to be severely denounced and punished.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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