(2) The Governor of Sheng-ching submits an application for permission to erect a Memorial arch to an old man of 82, who is dressed with a large posterity. Chao Yuhsin, the individual in question, is a native of the Hai-yang District in Shantung, and has six sons, thirteen grandsons, five great-grandsons, and one great-great-grandson.
jo remembers his father and grandfather, to whom he showed much dutiful affection, and has seen seven generations of his family, five of which ave still living. One of his grandsons is Police Master at Kai-ping in Sheng-ching, and the present application emanated from two of his fellow provincials who hold office in Manchuria.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.