Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, is appointed Probationary Grand Coun-oiller.
27th August.
Tieh Liang. Probationary Grand Coun oiller, acting President of the Board of War,' and Janivr Vice President of the Board of Revenue, is hereby also appoint ed a member of the Cheng-wu Chu (Department of State Affairs).
29th August, (1) We have received a memorial from Chou Fu asking that a military officer be allowed to resign his post on account of chronic illness. In response, we hereby grant the prayer of Chen Hsixo, Major-General of the Ssu-Sung Military Circuit of Kiangsu province, to be allowed to resign his post, (2) Hsu Shao-chen, an expectant Taotai of Kiangsu, is hereby appointed Major-General of the Ssu-Sung Military Circuit of Kiavgsu, vice Ch'tn Hsia, resigned on account of illness.
(8) Decree expressing regret ut: receipt of news of death of Ch'un Man, a former Assistant Military Governor of Tarbagatai, Outer Mongolia." Tue usual funeral grant is ordered to be given the family of the deceased, who is to b" buried with all the honours due his rank. His black marks are to. be erased from the official records and his official life. ix to be inserted in the Dynastic History. Tu addition, his name is to be placed in the Memorial temple in Kuldja built in honour of Chin Shun, a former Tartar General of Ili, as a mark of the Imperial esteem.
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