October Gth.—(1) Postscript memorial from Ting Pao-chen, Governor-General of Stechuen, The Tuuperial Resident has already reported to His Majesty, as he has informed the memorialist, that the Dalai Lama, after his enthronement, was about to despatch a tribute mission to the capital. On receipt of the Resident's communication, the memorialist gave orders for the attention to be paid to this mission along their line of route that the law requires. The mission, headed by an abbot, called Ch'ingjaolungjot'angeh'i, with disciples and attendants, reached Oh'éng-ta Fu on the 8th of December 1879, and on inspection of the articles of tribute they had brought, these were found to consist of 407 packages, weighing 20,045 catties, which was the number and weight given in the letter from Thibet. Orders were then given for the cases to be wrapped up and securely lashed, and, as required by regulation, a stamped pass was supplied to the mission upon which the number of cases was entered, each case being further secured by a strip of paper pasted on it. The mission left Ch'éng-tu Fu on the 11th of July, under the escort of a lieutenant. Orders have been given to the district and dopartment Magistrates along the line of route to pass them on to Ning-chiang Chow on the Shensi frontier, where they will be handed over to the authorities of that provines.
October Tth—(1) A decree. On the present occasion of transmitting the Sacred Portrait of the Emperor T'ung Chih, with the Veritable Record of His Majesty's reign, the sacred Admonitions, the Genealogical. Register, the Announcement of Accession, and the Imperial seal to Moukthe usual number of Chinese officers iers will accompany the cortege; and, in addition, En Ch'tian, Captain-General of the Guards, who has been directed to escort these relics, will select a secretary and Lieutenant of the Guard with twenty men, who will accompany the procession as far as Shan-hai Kuan and then return to Peking. It will be met at Shan-hai Kuan by the Brigade-General of Shengking and the acting Vice-President of the Board of Ceremonies of that city, who will escort the relics to Moukden. The Governor of Shengking will, in accordance with rule, go out beyond the suburbs of the city to meet the cortege, receiving it kneeling, but ive need not go to a great distance beyond" the city to meet it. "The allowances due to the guards of the Ch'ien Ch'ing Gate who are detached for this duty will be granted in the same manner as to the Guards of the Great Gates. The daily travelling allowances-granted to the officers and men of
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