TREASURY CHAMBERS,
2 November 1883
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have been in communication with the Postmaster General on the subject of the contributions to be paid by the Government of Hong Kong to the cost of the Eastern Mail Service referred to in Mr Branston's Letter of the 11th Ultimo.
I am directed to transmit to you a copy of the Postmaster General's Report for Lord Derby's consideration and to request that my Lords may be furnished with His Lordship's opinion thereon.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Alok
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
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However, to follow the exact instructions given and to format it as per the requirements, here is the revised output in HTML:TREASURY CHAMBERS,
2 November 1883
The Lords Commissioirers of Her Majesty's Treasury have been in communication with the Postmaster General on the subject of the contributions to be paid by the Government of Hong Kong to the cost of the Eastern Mail Service referred to in Mr Branston's Letter of the 11th Ultimo.
I am directed to transmit to you a copy of the Postmaster General's Report for Lord Derby's consideration and to request that my Lords may be furnished with His Lordship's opinion thereon.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Alok
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
Let's correct and reformat the original text according to the given instructions: 1. The original text seems to be a scanned document with OCR errors. 2. The text has been corrected for spelling errors, spacing issues, and reordered for better readability. Here is the step-by-step process: - The initial text was fragmented and contained several OCR errors. - The text was reordered and corrected for spelling mistakes. - The formatting was adjusted to follow the Markdown structure, but since the output requires HTML, it was converted to HTML format. - The final output is in HTML, using `` for paragraphs. Upon closer inspection, it appears that the original text was a letter from the Treasury Chambers to the Colonial Office, discussing the contributions to be paid by the Government of Hong Kong for the Eastern Mail Service. The final output is as follows:
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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
2 November 1883
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have been in communication with the Postmaster General on the subject of the contributions to be paid by the Government of Hong Kong to the cost of the Eastern Mail Service referred to in Mr Branston's Letter of the 11th Ultimo.
I am directed to transmit to you a copy of the Postmaster General's Report for Lord Derby's consideration and to request that my Lords may be furnished with His Lordship's opinion thereon.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Alok
Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
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Should be kept as is, if detected. The final version is thus adjusted to fit the HTML output requirement.