Hei-lung Chiang reports that he has been requested by the Lieutenant-Governor of Hurun-pir to lay before His Majesty an application made by Tukar, Gi mor of Uhasutai. The applicant is by birth one of the New-Bargu nomads in the jurisdietion of Hurun-pir. He has served in the army since 1892, and has been promoted stop by step to the high rank of Chiany-chitn which he now holds. He is well aware that no devotion on his part can repay in the lightest degree the benefits he has received the hands of His Majesty; but as a rk of itude he has at his temple of fifty or ye district. He has are well acquainted with the contents of their breviaries and who will offer constant: rayers on behalf of Their Majesties the Empress and the Emperor, thus stirring the hearts and exciting the loyal feelings of the Bargu nomads that dwell round about. He now begs that His Majesty will be pleased to give a name to the temple, according to the precedent of the four temples in the country of Hurun-pir. The Meniorialist, in presenting this application, remarks that, in the forty-ninth year of his reign, the Emperor Ch'ien Lung bestowed names on two temples in the Bargu and Ao-lo-t'8 Districts, and the Emperor Chia Ch'ing, in his seventh year, conferred the same distinction on two temples in the So-Jon country. He therefore feels justified in laying the matter before His Majesty, who will decide what shall be done.—Referred by Rescript to the Board,
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