EXAMINATIONS, The Assistant Military Governor of Shanhaikuan, Ch'ien 'T6, asks that his second son Ch'ang Fu, now an expectant Under Secretary of the Board of Works, at present allowed by Imperial Edict to stay at Shanhaikuan to assist the memorialist. }in looking after his household arrang ments, may be allowed to go up to. Peking for the extra Clujén literary examinations commanded by Imperial Edict last February to take place during the Autumn months in honour of H.1.M. the Empress Dowayer's {sixtieth birthday next year. As the youth has evinced commendable literary ambition, the memorialist is anxious' to enueonts—Reseript Let the proper yumén courage it and new prays for the Imperial
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