17th June.
(1) Decree stating that his Majesty desires to offer thanks at the temples in return for the bounty of Heaven in having answered his Majesty's prayers the other day for rain, His Majesty will therefore proceed on the 20th instant to the Temple of the High Heaven, to offer thanks in person, and commands certain Princes and Dukes of the Imperial House (names given), to proceed to various other temples (oamed) to offer thanks on behalf of his (2) Tsai Ch'ang (Imperial Clan), is appointed chief Literary Examiner for the LA. examinations this summer, in Foochow (Fukien province), and Wu Ying-pei, Hanlin Academist, is appointed Assis'ant Examiner.
Re Descendants of the Late Boxer Princes.
(1), We have received a memorial from the Imperial Clan Court asking whether the lineal heirs of the late Prince Chuang and other Princes should be permitted to succeed to their fathers' titles. Now, in former times and under less serious circumstances previous Emperors of this dynasty have been known to have allowed the sons of cashiered princes and nobles to succeed to the rank and titles'forfeited by their parents; but in the present instance, Tsai Yi, Prince Tuan, 2nd Order; Pru Ching, Prince Yi. Ist Order; Tsai Hsun, Prince Chuang, Ist Order; and Princes Tsai Lien and Tsai Ying, both of the 8rd Order, forfeited their respective ranks and titles on account of having endangered the safety of the Empire by their criminal encowragement of, and connection with, ruffians and desperadoes. Their crimes were, therefore, of too grave and serious a nature to allow their immediate descendants and lineal heirs to succeed to their cashiered parents' hereditary titles, ete, and we, therefore, cannot grant the memorial of the said Imperial Clan Court. We, however, hereby command the said court to select from the members of the Imperial Clan nearest to the throne for a special audience before us when we will then decide as to who shall be selected to succeed to the titles of the cashiered princes herein before mentioned. As for the cashiered Duke Tsai Lan, 3rd Order, who had forfeited his title on' the same grounds, as the above title was granted to him as a promotion from his original rank of an Imperial noble, ninth in lineal descent to the throne, as this title naturally ceases with his heir, there will be no necessity for selecting any one to succeed (2) Wang Yi-shu is appointed Literary Chancellor of Kuangsi province.
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