(2) With reference to the memorial of the Board of Revenue recommending that the surplus revenue for 1897 obtained at the Octroi Bureau under the Senior Vice-Collector, Prince P'u Lun, at the Chung: wen gate of Peking, amounting to Tls. 1,435, should be handed over to the Imperial Hourehold Department, we hereby concur with th" said recommendation and command that the amount be paid over to the Privy Purse, it being unnecessary, under the present circumstances, to bestow the money upon the said Prince P'u Lun as has some times been done in more prosperous times.
(2) The same Board als" reports that Prince Tsai Ying, Junior Vice-Collector of the ssid Chungwén gate Octroi Bureau, succeeded in getting a surplus of revenue for 1897 aggregating Tls. 1,430, odd, and recommends that the amount bs handed lover to the uses of the Imperial Household Department. We hereby command that the said Prince Tsai Ying shall hand the said amount to the Treasury of the Privy Purse instead of keeping it to himself ay a reward for his exertions in the said Bureau, (3) With reference to the memorial of the Court of Sacrificial Worship stating that sacrificial worship should be performed at the Ancestral Temple of the Imperial Dynasty on the first day of the New Year (22nd January), fur the purpose of paying the usual oomgratulatory obel-ances of the ing year, we hereby command K'ai Prince of Cheng, to perform the said in our stead on that day, 16th January.
IMPERIAL DEERERS, (1) A note by the Court of Sacrificial Worship this morning reports thut on the Sist' day of January falls the sacrificial worship set down by the ancient Rites to be performed at the Ancestral Temple of the Imperial Dynasty in celebration of the advent of the first day of the Spring of 1898 on that day. With reference to the above we hereby intimate our intent personally to the said '0 conduct worship, and appoint our Imperial clansmen Pa Ch'ing, Prince of I, to sacrifice for us at the Rear altars, En clining at the Eastern altars and Ying chuo at the Western altars.
(2) On the same day which ix also set apart for special sacrificial worship at the temple of the Cutelary Deity of the year we hereby appoint Lung Ch'ing, Prince of Suh, to conduct the ceremonies and Ch'én Pang-kuei and Ch'ung Hsin to worship before the Eastern and Western altars, respectively.
(3) On the dey set apart for worship atthe Temple of Supplicstion for Bountiful Harvests, namely, the 7th of February next, we hereby intimate it to be our intention to worship there in person on that day. 16th January.
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