h Lé-ho-pu, Grand Secretary and President of the Board editing the collected Institutes of the dynasty states that since the work begun by his Board for a revised edition of the collected institutes of the Ta-tsing dynasty, he and his colleagues have made considerable progress in editing the Chinese version of the work, and the Manchu version might also be said to have suecessively arrived at an encouraging stage, and is being now written out in proper" characters (chéwls:). But us the number of volumes is very considerable it is exceedingly necessary for the sake of accuracy to appoint some officers for the special purpose of tallying the proofs, Memorialist and his colleagues, therefore, bearing this in mind have decided to memorialise in this instance asking the Throne to appoint a couple of Manchu chin shih or Metropolitan graduates in Manchu literature, for the purpose in view, in order to prevent any of error being
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