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After re-examining the text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, here is the corrected version in HTML format:In 2 was put up to public Auction in the usual manner subject to Annual rent. It had been applied to before the sale, would not have granted this lot, which was a valuable one and much sought after. Mr. Ladendorff, the Principal of the Hospital, who had made no previous application to the government for a site, but who after the sale asked to be exempted from rents on the ground that the lot had been purchased for the purpose of creating a benevolent Institution. Inasmuch as the Government, if it had been applied to before the sale, would not have granted this lot as a free site for an Orphan Asylum, while there was an abundance of unoccupied land of less value equally well suited for such a purpose. I considered that I could not forego the conditions of sale without injustice both to the Public and to the unsuccessful competitors.
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