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Journal of Occurrences.
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glorious; then will our content be increased. Let the mourning be taken off according to the old regulation, after twenty-seven days have transpired, and let this announcement be proclaimed throughout the empire, that all inay hear it.
A number of papers have been issued from the capital relating to the de- mise, one of them giving directions respecting the religious ceremonies to be observed towards the departed monarch. His miáu háu, or temple de- signation, the name by which he is to be worshiped in the hall of ancestors
and called in history, is Siuen trung Ching hwinglĩƒ£* 宣宗成皇帝
our munificent ancestor, the emperor Perfect. When the emperor's corpse is to be carried to Moukden to be laid in the sepulchre of his fathers, does not appear. Notice has also appeared requiring the character chú in the emperor's name to be contracted to, when employed in common writing, but as it is a character seldom used, it will not often require to be thus muti- lated.
The edict of accession was issued on the same day with the preceding, and is almost word for word like the same proclamation issued by Táukwáng in 1820, as given in vol. X, page 89, from which we infer that the proclamations and usages connected with the demise and accession of the emperors are all done according to "old custoin." Part of this paper was given on page 231, and we now insert the remainder, containing the recital of the va rious privileges and favors conferred by Hienfung. Those marked with an asterisk are identical with the favors conferred on Táukwáng's accession; there were only twenty-two articles in that paper.
*1. To all the princes and dukes of every grade, both in the capital and beyond it, let gracious gifts be conferred.
*2. To all the princesses of the blood, and those nieces and cousins farther removed [than daughters], let gracious gifts be conferred.
*3. Let all the Manchu and Chinese officers, civil and military (down to a township magistrate and an ensign), be advanced one step.
*4. To all civilians, of whatever grade, in addition to confirming to them the rank or step they at present hold, let the nominal title or acting office they may now exercise, be conferred upon them.
*5. Let the sons of civilians at the capital above the fourth rank, and in the provinces above the third rank, and of all military officers above the second rank, receive the same title as their fathers, and each officer enter one son at the (Kwoh-tsz' kien or) National College.
*6. Let all civilians below the fourth rank, and military men below the third rank, who have been suspended or disranked, but still retained in office, and those whose salaries have been retained, or who have been fined, or other- wise punished according to their delinquences, be restored to their rank, and their fines remitted.
*7. Let the number of [successful] candidates at the next examination for (tsinsz' or) Doctor be reported to Us by the Board of Rites with the request that it be enlarged; at the next provincial examination for (küjin or) Master, let the number of [successful] candidates be increased 30, 20, or 10, according to the size of the province; and let the number of [successful] Manchu and Mongol candidates be increased six, and of the Chinese bannerinen three.
8. Let the number of (siútsái or) bachelors who may succeed at the next examination in each province be increased seven, five, or three, according to the size of the district.
*9. Let the Masters by purchase (kiensang) of the National College, and the student candidates for employment, have a month's vacation.
10.
Let the bachelors in every superior and inferior department, district, and military post in the provinces, each be promoted one privilege.
*1.
Let every person throughout the provinces who has been distinguished for filial duty, incorruptibility, morality, and integrity, be reported to Us that
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