This Ordinance is a document issued from the Meiji Government to Okura-sho as a notice of Dajokan, stating that among the lands and buildings of castles across the country that had belonged to the Department of War, those that are to be retained by the Army for military purposes will be kept, meaning they will continue to be national administrative assets, and the other lands and buildings will be disposed of, meaning they will be national ordinary properties managed by and to be disposed of by Okura-sho.
明治政府から太政官達書として大蔵省に発せられた文書で、今まで全国の城郭の土地建物については、陸軍省所管財産であったが、今後陸軍が軍用の財産として残す部分については存城処分、すなわち引き続き陸軍省所管の国有財産行政財産とするも、それ以外については廃城処分、すなわち大蔵省所管の国有財産普通財産に所管換えし、大蔵省において処分すべし、とした。