Chung Haw, Gioro or member of the collateral branch of the Imperial Dav, and Imperial Resident at Uliasut'ai, and Chih Jui, Vice-Resident of the same, jointly den-unco A Yi-erh, a Mongol Duke and Djassack or Chief of a Mongol tribe, for defiance of the orders of his superiors and request the punishment of the said Duke in order to serve as an example to other nobles wh" may desire to disobey orders from Pebing, I sppenrs that i the early part of the month of July last the Cxptain-General of the league of the said refractory Duke reported to memorialists that the latter had failed so far to pay up certain monies which he was indebted to the State and the payment of which had been commanded by a former Imperial edict to be made at once. Further, that the said Duke had rent to the said Cxptain-General a ro-port that the former had been overtaken with smallpox, in conseq: ence of which the (the suid Duke) asked permission to go to Peking to consult: phy-cians and at the same time pray for an Imperial Audience, Upon the said Captain-General finding that the report of smallpox bad no fonndation at all and was only a pretext.to get to Peking to seek some: means of altering the edict about the payment of
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