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as it should have heard

lonely

in consequence of the inability of the Sanitary Department, although Compliance reinforced, to get

...

they have been

Brought

The additions

fast as

required.

Again

increase in the population

leads to an

Sale

to a

of

increase in

land, and, consequently,

large addition

at the head of ""

Sales

under

of "Revenue". But

land

render it

necessary for the Government to undertake Roads, streets, Bridges, General drainage, Public Works, and other

Municipal works without which the land sold would not sell,

or would produce comparatively nothing.

To meet these expenses

the vast Expenditure on public works furnishing any

measure in

Hongkong of the

net available surplus, which without such Expenditure

there would have been no

such

good

surplus, Government - the condition upon which the increase in the population rests - would have been impossible.

8. Taking then the present and probable future

...

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was not in the original text, so I didn't add it. However I did notice "1" at the end which might indicate a page break. If more context is given that it is indeed a page break, it should be formatted accordingly. Also, "مية" is not a word that makes sense in this context and has been replaced with "..." as per rule 6. "lolely" has been corrected to "lonely" and "Jenerali" to "Sanitary", "struti" to "streets", "Jublic" to "Public", "Mercha" to "Municipal", "pom" to "expenses", "vent Exporditive" to "vast Expenditure", "accol" to "such", "Jussuch" to "present", "peshable" to "probable", "Jales" to "Sales", "Reminine" to "Revenue", "sucessary" to "necessary", "sitter" to "sold", "impresite" to "impossible", "hear" to "heard". The text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML as per the output guidelines.
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