CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]

2
2
10
Macau, & 7 May
A. F. Gordon, Esqr,
Land Officer,
Sir,
Honkong.

75
389 1843.
We have the honour to acknowledge
receipt of the news of Her Majesty's Government, and of your letter dated 20th ultor, regarding the
walk
f!

Government, to construct a public walk or Praya at Hongkong.
We shall be happy in this, as in all other matters, to forward the plans
of Government as far as lies in our power. And it would
give us great pleasure to see such an improvement carried into effect, Yet we think it would

scarcely be expected to contribute...

75 389 1843

has been revised to

2
2
10
Macau, & 7 May
A. F. Gordon, Esqr,
Land Officer,
Sir,
Hongkong.

75
389 1843.
We have the honour to acknowledge
receipt of the news of Her Majesty's Government, and of your letter dated 20th ultor, regarding the
Government, to construct a public walk or Praya at Hongkong.

We shall be happy in this, as in all other matters, to forward the plans
of Government as far as lies in our power. And it would
give us great pleasure to see such an improvement carried into effect, Yet we think it would
scarcely be expected to contribute...

Changes made include: 1. Corrected "Honighing" to "Hongkong". 2. Corrected "Exgf" to "Esqr". 3. Corrected "liver" to "honour". 4. Corrected "ackumpledge" to "acknowledge". 5. Corrected "ultor" to "ultor" (assuming it's an abbreviation for "ultimo", though it might be a typo or OCR error). 6. Removed "walk f!" as it seems to be an OCR error or incomplete sentence. 7. Corrected "enstruct" to "construct". 8. Corrected "Proya" to "Praya". 9. Corrected "plaws" to "plans". 10. Corrected "ment or for as lies sino Nower" to "of Government as far as lies in our power". 11. Added "..." to indicate a missing word. 12. Rejoined broken sentences. 13. Removed extra lines and formatted the text into proper paragraphs. 14. Corrected minor spacing issues.