(1) With reference to the memorial of the Board of War asking that officers be appointed to examine our vegetarian diet and fasts during the sacrificial worships required to be offered by us in person during the Ist moon, we hereby appoint P'éng Shou, the Duke of Cho, isin Ohi, Fu Chu-li, S6 Ling-d,.P'u Shan, Heiang En, and En P'u to undertake the said duties during the next month.
(2) We hereby announce that we intend, after transacting all business of State tomorrow morning, to go to the Southern Lake to pay our usual obeisances to her Imperial Majesty the Empress Dowager, and upon returning to Peking proceed! midday to the Tze-kuang Pavilion to wi ness the wrestling, matches between Mat chus and Mongolians and other athletic games annually held there.
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