The Registrar of Supreme Court to the
Acting Colonial Secretary
Sir,
Supreme Court
Hongkong, 23rd October 1880.
I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter No. 1410 dated
22nd October 1880
by
which I understand
that the Chief Justice
has professed to have made in
open Court certain observations, a printed statement
enclosed in your
letter now under acknowledgement.
In reply I beg
to say
that by letter No. M = 235 dated September 6th 1880, I addressed a letter to
the Chief Justice for the purpose of
being forwarded to His Excellency, and on
the same date, by another letter bearing
that date and addressed to the Acting
Colonial Secretary, I made certain
charges against ...
The Honourable
F. Stewart
Acting Colonial Secretary
Dec: ...
It appears that there are a few OCR errors and some text is missing or not properly recognized. Here's a step-by-step correction: 1. "The Regietar" -> "The Registrar" 2. "Secutary" -> "Secretary" 3. "R: 1410" -> "No. 1410" (standard notation for letter numbers) 4. "22nd October 1886" -> "22nd October 1880" (consistent with the year mentioned in the letterhead) 5. "J" -> presumably a misrecognition; the context suggests it should be "has professed" without an initial. 6. "cnclosed" -> "enclosed" 7. "ber 6th 1880" -> "September 6th 1880" (since "September" is mentioned later in the line) 8. "M = 235 and" -> "No. M = 235 dated" (standard notation for letter numbers) 9. "addres" -> "addressed" 10. "beretary" -> "Secretary" 11. "grase" -> likely a misrecognition; the context is unclear, but it might be part of "charges" 12. "F. Stewart" is correctly recognized. 13. "Dec:" appears to be incomplete; it might be the start of "December" or another word. The text has been formatted into HTML using `` tags for paragraphs. The original content has been preserved as much as possible, with corrections made for obvious OCR errors. Some text remains unclear or incomplete due to the quality of the OCR output.