received the report of 10, Vicerny of Chihli, an-
hsien, where the Yellow River flows nouncing that all Lis quiet at_Tungmingthrough Chihli province. Shortly after last autumn, the embankments at Tang-ninghsien were threnteued by a sudden overflowing of the Yellow River, but fortunately, under the directions of the said Viceroy, his subordinates were enabled to arrest widespread inundation through their promptness and diligence. And now although the first frosts have come, through the beneficent Providence of High Heaven the waters have remained quiet and lence reigns over the Tungming region. We feel duly thankful and grateful to Heaven and the gods for their protection and in token thereof command that ten "large sticks of Tibetan incense be forthwith sent to the said Viceroy who shall direct the Taotai of the Ta-Shun-Kuang Intendancy of Chili to take the said incense to the Dragon temples at the villages of Lilienchuang, Kaochun, and Wauchuang, and there present the offerings on our behalf to their' gos As for the promotions and rewards recommended the said Viceroy to the deserving officials concerned in the conservation of the said Yellow River, let the Boards of Civil Appointments and of War report on the list of names as presented by the said memori a (2) Li Hung-kuei, Civil Governor-elect of Moukden and Literary Chancellor of Fengtien province, sends us a memorial reporting serious illness and that although the leave of absence granted him is about to expire, his illness has not been allayed one jot, hence, in order that the duties of the above office may not suffer, through the continued absence of the regular incumbent, the memorialist
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