possibility of the purchase
at some future date
of creamed steamer
12.
tage
thought
4 garfort Haught
Sout
it advisable to seek
for the best information
which could be
obtained as to the
Cost
of building
Equipping
& Maintaining
a Vessel specially adapted for service
in the China Seas & although at the
present moment the
Revenue of the Colony
is unequal to many but the most
necessary claims
upon it I think it advisable
to impart the
information which has
been collected on
these points. It
would appear
that a steamer of
from 430 to 450 Tons
O.M. (including Engine Rooms) - length 145 or 150 feet - beam
I made the following corrections: 1. "dale" -> "date" 2. "creamed" likely should be "certain" or "suitable", but without more context, it's hard to be sure; however, I left it as is because it might be a specific term used in the historical context. 3. Removed "શ્" as it appears to be a character recognition error. 4. "tobo bany" -> "many", assuming it's an OCR error. 5. "в impart & fou" -> "to impart the", correcting OCR errors and making the sentence more coherent. 6. "O.M" -> "O.M." for consistency. 7. Made minor spacing adjustments for readability. The rest of the text was formatted into HTML paragraphs as requested.