(2) Regarding the request for instructions by the Grand Court of Sacrificial Worship as to the sacrifices at the ancestral temple of our house on the 8th of Novem:
this day being the first month of the inter ten, be it known that we will go in person to the said temple to pay personal sacrifice, while it is our desire that K'uei Pin proceed to the Rear Shrines, En Ch'ing to the Eastern Court and Wen Hsi to the Western Court, for the purpose the intercession of i] of sacrificing in our stead.
2) Lung Ching is commanded to sacrifice at the Rear Shrines of the ancestral temple of the Imperial house on the 17th' of November, on the occasion of the fifty-ninth anniversary of H.I.M. the Empress Dowager's birthday.
THe court.
His Majesty gave audience this moming in the Grand Council Chamber to Hsi Ching, and Te Sheng, the newly-appointed Hoppo of Canton.
OFFICIAL MOVEMENTS, 'The Duke of Ts¢ has been appointed to sacrifice in His Majesty's stead at the an-castral tablets in the Palace on the 24th of October. The Duke of Na asks for five days' extra leave of absence. Prince Ching and his colleagues give thanks for the Imperial gifts. The Consort of the Eighth Imperial Princess having completed his leave of absence reports his return to Court duties, Chu Siang-hsing, newly-appointed Lieutenant-colonel in Kansu, Ssu 'Té-sheng, newly-appointed Colonel in the same province, and Te Sheng, newly-appointed Hoppo' of Canton, all give thanks for the Imperial bounty.
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