I hereby give My Sanction, with the advice of the Privy Council and through the resolution of the House of Peers, to the Imperial Ordiance concerning the partial amendments to be made to the Regulations of the House of Peers and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This third day of the Seventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (July 3, 1946). Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Minister of Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi Minister of Education TANAKA Kotaro Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo Minister of State SAITO Takao Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari Minister of State UEHARA Etsujiro Minister of Transportation HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan Minister of State KANAMORI Tokujiro Imperial Ordinance No. 350 A part of the Regulations of the House of Peers shall be amended as follows: In Article 1, Item 6, "Karafuto" shall be deleted. In the same Article, Item 7 shall be deleted. In Article 6, "Karafuto" shall be deleted and "less than 67 persons" shall read "less than 66 persons".

Article 7 shall be deleted.

Supplementary provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.