Tune 18th—(1) A Decroo ordering a further series of prayers for rain to be held at numerous State Temples where altars are to be erected and continuous services of prayer to be held at which officers rosidetco will be present. These serv will comumeuce on the 23ed inst. when His Majesty will visit the fa Kao Tien wud Shin Ying Kung in person, (2) The Members of the Grand Council call His Majesty's attention to a Decroe of the 20th year of Chia Ch'ing ordering that the Veritable Record" of the sayings and doings of the past Emperors of the dynasty together with the Imperial Genealogical Scrolls which are deposited in the Ch'ion-ching Hall should be taken out to be aired and dusted once in every two years, This ceremony having been performed the year before Inst, the Grand Council now submit a list of the names of the high officers eligible for the duty of repeating the process this your, and pray that Hi Majesty will select therefrom two Manchu and two Chinese officers to whom the work will be entrusted, A circle was placed round the names of ff the following high officer Usi Ching, i Tao-yuan and Hei Shu-ming.
(2) The Gorernor General at Canton reports that one Yen Kuang-ling, Captain a of a steam revenue launch, was shot in an encounter with smugglers at a placed called Mo-tao K'ou or Icnifegtiuding" inlet, in the Hsiang shan Di trict in the spring of last year. Lo prays that marks of Imperial compassion may be bestowed upon the deceased according to the scale allotted by statute, a reqitost which is granted by a Rescript appended to the Memorial, (8) The Court of Censors report the receipt of a petition from Chou Kuan, ex-prefect of Vu-ning Fu in Honan, who complains of the injustice of his recent missal from the service on the denunciation of the Governor, who declared that the
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