Deo. 20th.—Anedict is issued in reference to a memorial from Tso Tsung-tang and Mutu-shan, reporting a series of important victories over the Mahometan rebels beyond the River Tao. The memorial states Shensi Tequesting a tablet for the Temple toa memorial from the lieut. "governor of (2) There is another edict in reference
4Si-yo at Hwa-yin and asking that the officials and gentry through vwhouo exe ions the temple has been repaired may be ably rewarded. The Hanlin College directed to furnish the tabut and the Board of Civil Office to bestow the decorations requested.
(8) The lieut.-governor of Shansi reports the death of the Taotai Yi Shih-chuen and begs that.a successor may be appointed without delay.
(4) Tsao-pao, chief of the Censorate, reports having received a petition pravin that a posthumous title may be conferred on the late prefect Li Tai-wen.. While Li Tai-wéu was district magistrate of Ping-nan, in the 3rd year of the reign Hsien-feng (1853), he encountered the Yueh rebels (the Taipings) in several hundreds of battles and skirmishes, and slew thousands, of them. For these services he received a flowered peacock's feather and the title of subprefect. Subsequently he repeatedly defeated the rebel war junks, and was Siyo, "Great Western mountain." The Chines gprak of yo lofty mountains: the. Eastarn, Wester forshern, Southern, and. Central. "Rach hat a temple
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