ABSTRACT
With the object of accomplishing the refornls abovementioned there was established, by Imperial Edict of the lOth .January, 1909, the Committee for the Reorganization of the :Financial Affairs of the Empire, (see Nos. 534 and 535), in the :Ministry of Finance at Peking, and in the provinces, there were esta,blished Branch Offices of the Committee for the Reorganization of the Financial Affairs of the Empire (see Nos. 536 to to 541), at the Governor-General's and Governor's Yamen. Regulations defining the duties of these establishments-at the Capital and in the proyinces-were drawn up by the Ministry of Finance and submitted in a Memorial which was sanctioned by the Emperor on the 21st ~larch, 1909.
