(1) Fu T'ung-d (Manchu), Censor of the Eastern City, asks for an extra allowance {of rice in connection with the Refuge at the Small Market of that portion of Peking. There have already been given {300 piculs of rice for the winter, but owing to the extra number of poor people requiring help during the present winter. the above named donation, it is feared, will not be sufficient to last through the whole. cold season. I hereby grant another 100 piculs to the said Refuge as an extra token of my sympathy for the sufferings of my poor subjects.
(2) With reference to my decree granting extra allowances to the poorer members of I, the Empress Dowager, have read the Imperial C.an and collateral branches, the memorial of the Generalissimo Jung Lu ' and: another one for the widows and.or-Fatious arsenals and small arms factories of" pensions, I Hereby appoint' Chin' Ch'y, ing. that: instructions. be given.to the phons there!
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