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However, to follow the instructions more closely and correct the OCR output:

labels to be supplied to this botany and suggesting

that as the Colonies generally have obtained postage Stamps of their own through their London Agents, the same course should be followed in the case of Hongkong

I have now the honor to request that if your Grace should approve of the measures recommended in my Confidential Despatch of this date for accommodating the Postal receipts to the general Currency of the Colony, the Agent General for Crown Colonies be directed to procure and forward forthwith the postage stamps enumerated in the annexed requisition and that (over and above the fourth of quantity there specified for the estimated consumption for six months) may be regularly forwarded from England every succeeding six months.

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Let's correct and reformat it according to the given rules and output it in HTML as requested:

labels to be supplied to this botany and suggesting that as the Colonies generally have obtained postage Stamps of their own through their London Agents, the same course should be followed in the case of Hongkong

I have now the honor to request that if your Grace should approve of the measures recommended in my Confidential Despatch of this date for accommodating the Postal receipts to the general Currency of the Colony, the Agent General for Crown Colonies be directed to procure and forward forthwith the postage stamps enumerated in the annexed requisition and that (over and above the fourth of the quantity there specified for the estimated consumption for six months) may be regularly forwarded from England every succeeding six months.

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The final HTML output is:

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labels to be supplied to this botany and suggesting that as the Colonies generally have obtained postage Stamps of their own through their London Agents, the same course should be followed in the case of Hongkong

I have now the honor to request that if your Grace should approve of the measures recommended in my Confidential Despatch of this date for accommodating the Postal receipts to the general Currency of the Colony, the Agent General for Crown Colonies be directed to procure and forward forthwith the postage stamps enumerated in the annexed requisition and that (over and above the fourth of the quantity there specified for the estimated consumption for six months) may be regularly forwarded from England every succeeding six months.

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