In response to the memorial of the Grand Court of Sacrificial Worship, His Majesty has appointed Yi Sui, Ching Li and Shih En-yung to sacrifice in His Majesty's stead at the Lake of the White Dragon; while at the instance of the Office of Worship, Ceremonies and Control of Eunuchs (Imperial Household) Tung, Prince of the 4th order, has been ordered to conduct the worship at the Tmperial ancestral shrines, on the 10th instant. Huai T'a-pu and K% 'I both presented memorials this morn person, thanking His Majesty's selection of themselves to be Chief and Vice Commi sioners of the Peking Octroi at the Ch'ung-wen gate. The Duke of Ch'eng asks for ten days, and the Marquis of Sing for twenty days' extra leave of absence from Court owing to urgent family affairs.
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