At the request of certain influential people in Cheki ug the Governor of that province prays the Emy to authorise the construction of temples and the official performance of rites in honour of two of the memorialist's predecessors. 'The first of these is Ch'ao Shih-lin, who, became Governor in the year 1684. At that period the people owed large debts to the soldiery at cruel rates of interest,' By an arrangement with the Tartar General he provided funds and: extinguished the debts, thos freeing dedasd the cosslain Hanger, whee lo from a painful bondage.
had been neglected for nearly a: hundred years, and rebuilt both the city: temple and that of Confucius. He further constructed a college on the Orphan Hill in the West ake, where the people were... taught monthly the precepts of the Sacred Edict,
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