The Governor of the lower province of Manchuria submits an application requesting that tablets and inscriptions should be conferred by Imperial authority on several temples within his jurisdiction, by whose divine interposition the country has been saved from calamity during the present year, No rain fell fur two months at the ginning of last summer and the young crops were being quite burnt up, when the Memorialist and members of his staff repaired to the temples, and obtained an answer to their prayers in a bountiful downpour of refreshing rain, which restored the drooping crops, "and prepared the round for the planting of the later ones, arly in the 7th moon continual floods threatened to turn the whole country into a vast Luke, and there appeared to be no possible outlet for the waters. Memorialist again sought the aid of the deities, and fair weather together with a gradual abatement of the floods was soon vouchsafed. Although many villages were swamped along the banks of the rivers, yet the crops on the higher grounds were generally saved, and Memorialist considers that the escape from drought in the one case and complete Gestruction in the other, was entirely due to the merciful protection of Heaven. He therefore asks that some mark of Imperial favour be conferred on two temples in Moukden, and one at Kuangving.
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