28th December.
(1) Decree in response to memorial of Te'ao Hung-hsun, Acting Governor of Kueichou province, denouncing Liu Shih-wang, former Acting Major-General of the Kuchen Circuit, of said province, for pocketing the pay of his troops and other acts defrauding the Government. The accused, who has since returned to his native province of Hunan, is commanded to be cashiered of his rank and titles and the Governor of Hunan is commanded to arrest the man and him under escort to Kueichou province to stand his trial for his misdeeds.
(2) En Shun is appointed Chief Proofreader of the Manchu edition of the Dynastic History, now being compiled at the Historiographer's Office,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.