Several of the Major General Commanding.
I have …
(Signed) J. M. Sorell
Lieut. Col. & CRE
Royal Engineers Office
Hougong 26th May 1884.
396
With reference to your letters of today's date relative to the perambulation of the War Department Boundaries at Stoughton; I have the honor to report that the perambulation for the year 1885 took place on the 20th April of that year, and was made by Lieut. Williams R. E. and myself in the usual manner, as follows :- The positions of the whole of the boundary stones…
Lieut. Col. Lovell CB.
Commanding Royal Engineer
Stongtong
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I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Stuoral` to `General`, `heims` to `letters`, `dieit.` to `Lieut.`, `eut. Col.` to `Lieut. Col.`, `CB3.` to `CB.`, `Houghing` to `Hougong`, `Stoughtong` to `Stoughton`, `StongRing` to `Stongtong`, `1815` to `1885` as it seems to be a typo given the context of the letter dated 1884). 2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences. 3. Added `…` to indicate missing words due to OCR damage. 4. Reformatted the text into proper paragraphs. 5. Corrected minor formatting issues to adhere to the given rules. 6. Removed the non-English text as it seemed out of context and not relevant to the rest of the document. 7. Preserved original page numbering format by leaving "396" as is, assuming it represents a page number.