| Then on Saturday, May 9, Kiyotaka KURODA was appointed as an undersecretary of the Hokkaido Development Commissioner (he was not an undersecretary of the Sakhalin Development Commissioner.) and considered as the executive managing director of Sakhalin. |
次いで5月9日に、黒田清隆を開拓使の次官（樺太開拓使の次官ではない）に任命し、樺太専務とした。 |