A comparatively short but rich collection of administrative documents (proclamations, circulars, and correspondence) from the author’s tenure as prefect of Guide 歸德 (Henan) from 4^th to 9^th month 1825. (Songzhou in the title is the department that was created in 596 and corresponds to present-day Shangqiu 商丘, the leading county of Guide prefecture.) The two main problems in the region were irrigation and flood protection, and the development of lawlessness consequent to natural disasters. When Wang arrived there was a drought, and he was entrusted with supervising canal dredging after conducting a general survey. Regarding public order, he worked hard at developing baojia. The circulars and proclamations in fasc. 1 deal with baojia, the registration of inns and a variety of businesses, capturing bandits, charity granaries (義倉), reducing corvée labor (省徭役) (the last topic with accompanying exchanges with the magistrates). Several items include detailed sets of regulations. The last is a circular addressed to the magistrates by Wang on departing from his post. Fasc. 2, titled “Map of the rivers of the department and seven counties of Guide prefecture” (歸德府一州七縣水道圖 [圖說 in running title]), consists of a set of representations of the river systems of every county in Guide, interspersed with related administrative correspondence and author’s explanations introduced by an 按. Appended is a set of advice on capturing locust larvae based on a campaign Wang led in Yongcheng county shortly after his arrival (河南永城縣捕蝻事宜), with an intro. dated 5^th month, 1825. The whole work is illustrative of Wang’s vaunted professionalism.