I hereby give My Santion to the Ordinance for the Abolition of the Regulations relating to the officials attached to the Imperial Princes and Princesses and the main and branch families of Prince Li and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor. This ninth day of the seventh month of the twenty-first year of showa (July 9, 1946). Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitami Imperial Household Ordinance No. 21 The Regulations relating to the officials attached to the Imperial Princes and Princesses and the main and branch families of Prince Li shall be abolished. Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force from the date of its promulgation.