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Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Peking , August 9, 1905 .
No. 49.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 34, of July 19, I have the honor to inform you that on the 3d instant I received a communication from the foreign office stating that on the 27th of July an imperial decree had been issued by which Shao Ying, senior under secretary of the board of commerce, was ordered to go abroad with the four high officials previously designated for that service to inquire into methods of government.

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I have, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill.