Circuit, repens that the men and women of Peking throng together during the month of June to sacrifice at the temples and shrines at Nanting, outside the Yungting gate, and during the processions and festivities race in carts and on horseback to thee: dangering of human life. To such a a has this evil grown that often such high persons as dukes, marquises and members of the Court and various Boards may be observed mixing in the common crowd attired in ordinary clothes, emulating the people and overrunning and crushing to death little children in their mad career. The police and soldiers along the roads recognising the high officials and nobility dare not prevent them, and so common people presuming on' their acquaintance or connection with the high person ages mentioned above, ape their manners and defy the guardians of the peace, robbing at pleasure and abducting young women whom these high personages have taken a fancy to. The memorialist has also heard that they even go so far as to make the keepers of the Yungting Gate leave the gates open up to midnight, contrary to all law and order.. The memorialist therefore prays that a decree be issued commanding the Captain-General of the peking Gendarmerie to investigate strictly into the charges and also to order his subordinates to close the city gates.at the proper hour. The desire to prohibit a repetition of this common evil is the cause of this memorial.—Deoree previously issued.
18th June,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.