The Governor of Peking according to annual custom has asked the Emperor for a supply of food for certain charitable institutions at Peking. His Majesty remarks that the cold weather is approaching and it is difficult for the poor t" find means of support. To two establishments he grants tive hundred piculs of small millet instead of their ordinary allowance of three hundred piculs, and to @ third he gives the smaller amount. In reply to another petition His Majesty bestows four hundred piculs of glutinous millet on the public soup kitchen at Lukouch'iao, and to another place, the warm refuge of the Tzitshan T'ang he gives three hundred piculs of the same grain.
12th October.
MEMORIAL TEMPLE TO KIN-SHUN, The Governor of Kirin refers to the fact that when Kin-shun, the conqueror of Turkestan, died, the Emperor sanctioned the erection of temples in his honour in all the provinces where he had won distinction. Certain gentlemen of Kirin now beg to call attention to the fact that in the bustle of his military life he found time to write books for the encouragement of learning and contributed vast sums towards the execution of useful works in his native country. Although the memory of him it preserved in the regions where be fought, there is nothing to make him remembered in his own province. Under these circumstances the memorialist begs permission to build a temple in honour of inal at the town of Kirin, to which he belonged.—Granted.
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