Therefore, while they approved the compilation work itself, Dajokan instructed Kyobusho to put judgment on hold until the compilation work was completed as to the appropriateness of the remote worship ritual at the Imperial Shrines and the preservation of shrine lands, and to dispatch the official notice on the survey to each prefecture under the name of Kyobusho, not of Dajokan (May 22).
そのため、教部省に対して、本書編纂は許可するものの、神殿での遥祭と社地保存の可否は本書完成を待つこと、また府県に対する調査命令は太政官からではなく教部省布達とすること、と指令した（同月22日）。