(8) Shakotu-linchapu, the Chief Controller of the territory of Kobdo, has received a report from' the Acting Captai oral of one of the Leagues or combined tribes of the Tourgouth Mongols. The Captain General states that he has been informed by Prince Misiko-tungkulabu, who is a member of his league, that the Prince's grandmother Alashan fell sick and Wied last August.
The Memorialist tinds that there are special regulations for the territories of Ili, Uliasutai and Kobdo with regard to what should be done in the case of the death of a Mongol Prince, Noble or Pri cess. According to there regulations, whic were instituted by the Mongolia Office and approved by the Emperor, if an elegy be ranted by His Majesty for the deceased, it will be composed in Mongol or Manchu by the Grand Secretariat in Peking and forwarded though the government post. On its arrival the Military Governor or Controller will depute an officer to convey it to the place where the remains are ivin, and there perform the ceremony of presen tation, (Nove.—It appears that the elegy here spoken of is a laudatory composition which is read in front of the coffin of the deceased and then solemnly burnt). Also in the case of the death of a princess the sacrificial offerings allowed are five sheep and five jars of wine, the cost of which is defrayed from the public funds in the hands of the Military Governor or Controller.
the Emperor will be pleased to bestow an Accordingly the Memorialist pays that elegy upon the deceased Princess Alashan, be performed. Rescript:—Let the Office upon which the prescribed ceremonies w concerned take note.
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