The Archive · 1904

IMPERIAL DECREE

(uy 'TELEGRAPH PROM PEKING.) SPECIALLY TRANSLATED FOR THE "NORTH

cis. pany NEws.")

Bist March Decree granting jade sceptre (*ju-i"") and pieces of silks and satins to the surviving parents of high Ministers of the Crown who rave passed the age of seventy, in honour of the seventieth birthday anniversary of the Empress Dowager next November.

Ast' Ay Decree commending some and cashiering ong a number of officials in Fuk:

in response to a memorial from Hising-jui, Viceroy of the Min-Che provinces.

2nd April.

Wang Yen-wei is appointed Vice-Directoz of the Court of Sacrificial Worship.

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

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