(4) As appears from a Memorial presented by a member of the Han-lin Yuan, there was formerly a complete record com: piled of all the families of the Manchus and other bannermen at Peking. This record which gave an account of the oft honours of every individual who oh any, was commenced in the thirteenth year yang Ching (A.D. 1733) and. completed in the ninth year of Ch'ien Lung (A.D. 1744), The Memorialist proposes that. the record should now be continued up to the preseat time, and that in future it should be revised every forty or fifty years.—Decree issued separately.
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