The complicated problems of administration on the Eastern frontier of the Empire have moved us to consider the of which the ogress organisation of those powers) by exeresa frontier shall be safeguarded and the local needs immediately satisfied. Consequently, recognising the advantage of organising a special Viceroyalty composed of the Provinces under the Governor-General of Amur and of the Province of Kuantung, We hereby order:—
1.—That Our Viceroy in the Far East shall assume high authority in all branches of civil administration on the frontier
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.