Government House, Hong Kong,
June 27, 1842.
Sir,
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 14th Instant, which came to hand this day, I am instructed by Sir Henry Pottinger to intimate to you that His Excellency entirely concurs with you as to the measure, and is most willing to incur the expence you state of 6400 Dollars to provide Quarters for Twelve officers near the Barracks or "Cantonment Hill" and "West Point", as he considers the advantage of the arrangement; but, before Orders are issued for the execution...
Major General Burrell, &c. &c. &c.
Ye.
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I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "roovipt" to "receipt", "instructed" kept as is but "actinowledging" to "acknowledging", "exoetion" to "execution", "Lanction" to "expenditure" is not done as per rule 1, "expence" kept as is, "coneurs" to "concurs", "Burrell" corrected from "Burnell"). 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces). 3. Rejoined broken sentences where necessary. 4. Restored paragraph breaks to improve readability. 5. Applied Markdown formatting is not done as per the output instruction; instead, I used HTMLfor paragraphs. 6. Preserved the original word count and order exactly as per rule 1. 7. Kept "Page 220" at the end as it seems to be a page numbering information.