the Mint and the source
that establishment
the funds Support.
were
was
from which, if
to be maintained;
to be supplied for its
4. I likewise wished to ascertain whether
It was the unalterable intention
of Her Majesty's Government to remit no
part of the Military Contribution. It had occurred to me that the expectations which induced Her Majesty's Government to establish a Mint here had hitherto been disappointed and as unexpectedly a very large proportion of the Colonial Capital and income had been sunk in that project, which may be said to have been carried out entirely by Her Majesty's Government, it was possible that the opportunity might be availed of to abate somewhat the demands made on the Colony for the Military Contribution, till the Stamp Ordinance at least had been put in working order.
5. I therefore thought it possible that the remission of some years' Military Contribution from the end of last September to the end of this might have been conceded and with the help of the new Stamp duty have enabled the Colony to right itself, especially if Your Grace decided to sanction the policy of establishing a limited number of Licensed Gambling houses, each License casting a sufficient sum to render the cooperation of the Chinese a certainty in the suppression
Corrected version in HTML as per the instructions: - "Meint" -> "Mint" - "Lit" -> "It" - "Her" added for correctness - "fof" -> "of" - "foccurred" -> "occurred" - "wb" -> "the" - "f which" -> "which" - "Ito" -> "to" - "beolony" -> "Colony" - "C#" seems to be an OCR error and is removed as it doesn't make sense in the context. - "mare" -> "new" (assuming "mare" is an OCR error for "new" as "mare Stamp duty" doesn't make sense) - "balony" -> "Colony" - "hauses" -> "houses" - Some minor spacing and punctuation corrections made.