(11) The long sleeves on coats, whether court dress or common are abolished. But officials shall be authorized to wear the sleeveless coat over the ordinary one. Soldiers’ uniforms shall continue as at present for a time but may be changed gradually to the foreign style.
(12) The people shall be given one month in which to prepare for these changes.
(13) The Police Bureau shall be an adjunct of the Home Department.
(14) Officials shall not ride on the streets in the high one-wheeled chair nor shall they be accompanied by a large retinue, nor shall the attendants call out for people to clear the way.
(15) No one shall be obliged to dismount when passing an official nor to show any other sign of servility.
(16) The Prime Minister shall have only four attendants, the Vice Prime Minister and all the other ministers of state shall have three, the vice-ministers shall have two and the secretaries one.
(17) Even eunuchs[eunuchs], if they are men of ability, shall be eligible for office.
(18) The law that relatives may not sue each other at law shall be abrogated except for very near relatives, and feuds between families shall be given up.
(19) All debts of long standing shall be cancelled (such as debts contracted by a father who is now dead or by relatives).
(20) There shall be but eleven official grades (in place of the eighteen which there had been formerly).