They were treated as kuge (court nobles) under the new government and were incorporated into the peerage as the Tosho Family class (the hereditary lineage of Court nobles occupying relatively high ranks) or a lifetime peerage in 1868, and with the implementation of the peerage system in 1884, they were granted a barony as 'those who established their family after the Meiji Restoration.'
新政府では彼らを公家として処遇し、明治2年（1868年）、堂上家格もしくは一代華族として彼らを華族に組入れ、明治17年（1884年）の爵位制度発足にあたっては「一新後新たに家を興したる者」として男爵の爵位を与えた。