CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]

Had it been in my power to peruse it as a whole, various clerks being engaged at the same time in copying different portions of it as it is written. On the whole, however, I think it unadvisable to withhold till another Mail the information which it contains.

I have the honor to be, May Lord Drake,
Your Grace's most obedient,
humble servant,
Francis Madonnell
Governor.

Page 272

P.S. Another copy of this despatch No 361.

Registered by record of the for?
For 9 Mit 1862.
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for 11535
REC C:0:
OCT 31 1867

Government House, HongKong, 11th September 1867.

My Lord Buckle,
I have the honor to transmit herewith for Your Grace's approval

Enclosure 1. Ordinance No. 14 of this year "to apply $895,000 to Public Service for the year 1868. I have the honor to be,
The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,

I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "clert's" to "clerks", "with hold" to "withhold", "May Lard Drake" to "May Lord Drake", "Reche forces" to removed as it seems to be a mis-OCR, "frances" to "Francis", "Butte" to "Buckle", "AGAVIN" and other nonsensical words removed or corrected, "Ne" to "Her", "Chandos" corrected but "Buckinghown" left as is because it could be a historical spelling variation, "Ne Majesty's" to "Her Majesty's"). 2. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces. 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated no missing words as there were no clear indications of missing words due to OCR damage. 6. Formatted the text using HTML with `

` for paragraphs. 7. Preserved original page numbering information ("Page 272"). 8. Made no rephrasing or rewriting. 9. No translation of text. 10. Corrected file references format (though there were none directly in the given text). 11. Kept page numbering information as is. 12. Removed no explanation wordings as there were none. 13. Did not need to reorder newspaper texts as the given text did not appear to be from a newspaper. 14. Did not need to reconstruct tables. 15. Did not need to reverse Chinese writing direction as there was no Chinese text. 16. Left no comments in the text.