The user wants me to proofread OCR output of a historical document about Hong Kong police pensions. The text appears to be a table with columns: Name of Pensioner, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date from which the Pension has been paid, Amount of Emolument when last employed in Public Service, Present Age of Pensioner, Cause of Retirement, and Remarks.

The OCR is messy with broken lines, misaligned columns, garbled characters (like "ショ", "PROJ", "Lædd", "Y", "Ordinance No. 11 of 1900" appears in a cell). I need to reconstruct the table properly in Markdown.

First, I need to parse the data. Let's list the rows as they appear:

1. Jaggut Singh, 406.16 (maybe £40 6s? Actually "406.16" could be £40 6s 16d? But format is £ s. d. The header shows "£ s. d." and "$ c." So amounts in pounds and dollars. The OCR shows "406.16" under Amount £ s. d. and "1st April, 1918" under Date, "x12.33" under Amount $ c., "51" under Age, "On Expiration of Term of Service" under Cause. But the OCR line: "Jaggut Singh,.... 406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of". Then next line "Shah Wali,........ 16.50 3rd April, 1918, 186,00 48". Then "Achar Singh, 29.62 7th Aug., 1918. 197.50 43". Then "I Lam Ping-in, .......... PROJ 170,50 1st. Oct., 1918. 330.00 56". Then "Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension." This is messy.

Better to reconstruct the table by aligning columns. The original likely had columns: Name, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks.

But the OCR has mixed lines. Let's try to parse each pensioner.

I'll go through the text line by line and try to assign fields.

The text starts with "284 ( L 22 ) POLICE PENSIONS. Name of Pensiouer. Amount. Amount. Authority. Date from which the Pension has been paid. Amount of Emolument whou last employed in Public Service, Present Age of l'ensioner. Cause of Retirement. £ s. d. $ c."

Then rows:

1. Jaggut Singh,.... 406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of
2. Shah Wali,........ 16.50 3rd April, 1918, 186,00 48
3. Achar Singh, 29.62 7th Aug., 1918. 197.50 43
4. I Lam Ping-in, .......... PROJ 170,50 1st. Oct., 1918. 330.00 56
5. Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension.
6. On Expiration f Term of Service. C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential. Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service.
7. Khair Mohamed, 62.00 7th March, 1919. 186.00 50 39
8. Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.) • 12 0 0 1st April, 1919. 186.19 39 Special Pensiou.
9. Maula Bux. 86.40 1st April, 1919. 216.00 46 Medical Certificate.
10. Mohamed Hayat, 57.30 27th Aug., 1919. 214.87 40 17
11. Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,

This is extremely messy. The OCR likely combined multiple columns and rows. I need to reconstruct a clean table.

Given the complexity, I should try to identify each pensioner entry. The document appears to be a list of police pensions with details. The columns are: Name, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks.

But the OCR has many line breaks and misplacements. I'll need to parse carefully.

Let's start from the top after headers.

First entry: "Jaggut Singh,.... 406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of"

Probably: Name: Jaggut Singh; Amount £: 40 6s 16d? But "406.16" could be £40 6s 16d? However the format £ s. d. usually separated by spaces or dots. Could be £40 6s 16d. But then Amount $: x12.33? That seems odd. Maybe "x12.33" is $12.33? But "x" might be a misread of "$". So $12.33. Date: 1st April, 1918. Emolument: ? The next column after $ is Authority? Actually the header: "Amount. Amount. Authority. Date from which the Pension has been paid. Amount of Emolument when last employed in Public Service, Present Age of Pensioner. Cause of Retirement." So there are two amount columns: first in £ s. d., second in $ c. Then Authority, then Date, then Emolument, then Age, then Cause.

But the OCR shows "406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of". That suggests the first amount is 406.16 (maybe £40 6s 16d?), then Date, then second amount $12.33, then Age 51, then Cause "On Expiration of Term of Service". But where is Authority and Emolument? Possibly the Authority is missing or combined.

Second entry: "Shah Wali,........ 16.50 3rd April, 1918, 186,00 48". So Name: Shah Wali; Amount £: 16.50 (maybe £16 10s? Actually 16.50 could be £16 10s 0d? But £ s. d. would be 16 10 0. 16.50 might be £16 5s 0d? Not sure). Date: 3rd April, 1918. Amount $: 186.00. Age: 48. Missing Authority, Emolument, Cause.

Third: "Achar Singh, 29.62 7th Aug., 1918. 197.50 43". Similar.

Fourth: "I Lam Ping-in, .......... PROJ 170,50 1st. Oct., 1918. 330.00 56". Here "PROJ" might be Authority? Or misread of something. Amount £: maybe 170.50? But "PROJ 170,50" could be Authority "PROJ" and Amount £ 170.50? But the column order: Amount £, Amount $, Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause. So after Name, we have Amount £, then Amount $, then Authority, then Date, then Emolument, then Age, then Cause. But the OCR seems to have Amount £, then Date, then Amount $, then Age, then Cause. Authority and Emolument missing.

Maybe the original table had columns: Name, Amount (£), Amount ($), Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks. And Authority is part of Remarks? The header says "Authority." Could be a column for the authorizing document.

Let's look at later entries where more fields appear.

"Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension."

Here "78 2 6" is clearly £78 2s 6d. Date: 1st Jun., 1919. Then "| £254.10.0" might be Emolument? "Term of Service." might be Cause. "Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension." might be Remarks.

Next: "On Expiration f Term of Service. C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential. Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service."

This seems like a continuation: "On Expiration of Term of Service" cause for previous? Then "C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential." might be Authority for next? Then "Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service." So Name: Chal (maybe "Chal" is a name? Could be "Chal" or "Chall"?). Amount £: 46.50? Date: 1st March, 1919. Amount $: 186.00. Age: 50. Cause: On Expiration of Terms of Service.

Next: "Khair Mohamed, 62.00 7th March, 1919. 186.00 50 39". Name: Khair Mohamed; Amount £: 62.00; Date: 7th March, 1919; Amount $: 186.00; Age: 50; Emolument? 39? Or Cause? "39" might be Age? But age already 50. Maybe 39 is Emolument? Or Remarks.

Next: "Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.) • 12 0 0 1st April, 1919. 186.19 39 Special Pensiou." Name: Tara Singh; Amount £: 12 0 0 (i.e., £12 0s 0d); Date: 1st April, 1919; Amount $: 186.19; Age: 39; Cause: Special Pension.

Next: "Maula Bux. 86.40 1st April, 1919. 216.00 46 Medical Certificate." Name: Maula Bux; Amount £: 86.40; Date: 1st April, 1919; Amount $: 216.00; Age: 46; Cause: Medical Certificate.

Next: "Mohamed Hayat, 57.30 27th Aug., 1919. 214.87 40 17". Name: Mohamed Hayat; Amount £: 57.30; Date: 27th Aug., 1919; Amount $: 214.87; Age: 40; Emolument? 17? Or Remarks.

Next: "Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

This is a jumble of multiple entries. It seems the OCR read across columns and rows incorrectly. The original document likely had a table with many rows. The OCR output is a linear stream of text from the table, but the columns are not separated.

Given the difficulty, I might need to reconstruct the table as best as possible, but the user expects a proofread text in Markdown with tables. However, the instruction says: "If data is clearly in table format, reconstruct the table using Markdown table syntax." So I should produce a Markdown table.

But the OCR is so garbled that reconstructing the exact original table may be impossible without the original image. However, I can attempt to parse the entries into rows with consistent columns.

Let's define columns based on header: "Name of Pensioner", "Amount (£ s. d.)", "Amount ($ c.)", "Authority", "Date from which the Pension has been paid", "Amount of Emolument when last employed in Public Service", "Present Age of Pensioner", "Cause of Retirement", "Remarks".

But the OCR doesn't clearly have all columns for each row. Some rows have more fields.

Maybe the original table had only: Name, Amount (£), Amount ($), Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks. Authority might be part of Remarks.

Let's look at the header again: "Name of Pensiouer. Amount. Amount. Authority. Date from which the Pension has been paid. Amount of Emolument whou last employed in Public Service, Present Age of l'ensioner. Cause of Retirement. £ s. d. $ c."

So there are 8 columns: Name, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause.

But the OCR shows "£ s. d." and "$ c." as subheaders under the two Amount columns.

Thus each row should have 8 fields.

Let's try to parse each row by assuming the OCR text is in order of columns for each row, but line breaks are random.

I'll go through the text sequentially and try to assign fields.

I'll write a script in my mind to parse, but manually.

Start after header:

"Jaggut Singh,.... 406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of"

Fields: Name: Jaggut Singh; Amount £: 406.16? But £ s. d. format: maybe £40 6s 16d? Could be 40 6 16. The OCR "406.16" might be "40 6 16". But then next is "1st April, 1918." which is Date. But Authority and Amount $ and Emolument are missing. Then "x12.33" could be Amount $ (12.33). Then "51" Age. Then "On Expiration of" Cause (maybe "On Expiration of Term of Service").

But where is Authority and Emolument? Possibly the Authority is blank or not captured. Emolument might be missing.

Next: "Shah Wali,........ 16.50 3rd April, 1918, 186,00 48"

Name: Shah Wali; Amount £: 16.50; Date: 3rd April, 1918; Amount $: 186.00; Age: 48. Missing Authority, Emolument, Cause.

Next: "Achar Singh, 29.62 7th Aug., 1918. 197.50 43"

Name: Achar Singh; Amount £: 29.62; Date: 7th Aug., 1918; Amount $: 197.50; Age: 43.

Next: "I Lam Ping-in, .......... PROJ 170,50 1st. Oct., 1918. 330.00 56"

Name: I Lam Ping-in; Amount £: PROJ 170,50? That doesn't make sense. "PROJ" might be Authority? Or misread of "£"? Could be "£170.50". But "PROJ" appears. Maybe "PROJ" is "Proj." for something. Or it's "£170.50" with OCR error. Let's assume Amount £: 170.50; Authority: (blank); Date: 1st Oct., 1918; Amount $: 330.00; Age: 56. Missing Emolument, Cause.

Next: "Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension."

Name: Geo. Sim; Amount £: 78 2 6 (i.e., £78 2s 6d); Date: 1st Jun., 1919; then "| £254.10.0" might be Emolument? "Term of Service." Cause. "Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension." Remarks.

But where is Amount $ and Authority? Possibly Amount $ is missing, Authority missing.

Next: "On Expiration f Term of Service. C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential. Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service."

This seems like two entries? "On Expiration f Term of Service." might be Cause for previous? Then "C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential." might be Authority for next? Then "Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service." So Name: Chal; Amount £: 46.50; Date: 1st March, 1919; Amount $: 186.00; Age: 50; Cause: On Expiration of Terms of Service. Authority: C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential. Emolument missing.

Next: "Khair Mohamed, 62.00 7th March, 1919. 186.00 50 39"

Name: Khair Mohamed; Amount £: 62.00; Date: 7th March, 1919; Amount $: 186.00; Age: 50; Emolument? 39? Or Cause? "39" might be Emolument? But Emolument is usually a dollar amount. Could be $39? But 39 is small. Maybe it's Age? But age is 50. Could be Remarks.

Next: "Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.) • 12 0 0 1st April, 1919. 186.19 39 Special Pensiou."

Name: Tara Singh; Amount £: 12 0 0 (£12); Date: 1st April, 1919; Amount $: 186.19; Age: 39; Cause: Special Pension. (Rs. 180.) might be Emolument in Rupees? Or Authority.

Next: "Maula Bux. 86.40 1st April, 1919. 216.00 46 Medical Certificate."

Name: Maula Bux; Amount £: 86.40; Date: 1st April, 1919; Amount $: 216.00; Age: 46; Cause: Medical Certificate.

Next: "Mohamed Hayat, 57.30 27th Aug., 1919. 214.87 40 17"

Name: Mohamed Hayat; Amount £: 57.30; Date: 27th Aug., 1919; Amount $: 214.87; Age: 40; Emolument? 17? Or Remarks.

Next: "Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

This is a mess. It appears the OCR has concatenated multiple rows. The text includes many names: Li Fuk, W. J. Kerr, Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun, Lædd Singh (maybe "Ladd Singh"?), Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R. Sutton, Kwong Chan, Kishen Singh, Sher Singh, E. J. Hedge, Badan Singh, Maher Singh, Bishen Singh, Khair Dean, Wu Sui-on, Li Shing, Wadawa Singh.

Also dates: 10th Nov., 1919; 1st Jan., 1920; 18th Mar., 1920; 10th Apr., 1920; 17th Apr., 1920; 20th Apr., 1920; 15th May, 1920; 31st May, 1920; 15th June, 1920; 15th July, 1920; 16th Aug., 1920; 17th Aug., 1920; 14th Nov., 1920; 15th Nov., 1920; 20th Nov., 1920; 25th Nov., 1920; 15th Dec., 1920.

Amounts in £ and $.

Causes: Invalided, Term of Service, Medical Certificate, Special Pension, etc.

Remarks: "Ordinance No. 11 of 1900", "C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential", "@ to Ruper (S.O. 2613 of '18", "† Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19".

Given the complexity, I think the best approach is to present the proofread text as a cleaned-up version of the OCR output, preserving the paragraph structure (though it's a table). But the instruction says to reconstruct tables using Markdown table syntax. However, the OCR is too garbled to accurately reconstruct the original table without the image. But I can attempt to create a table with the rows I can identify.

Given the user expects a proofread text, maybe they want the text corrected and formatted as a table. I'll do my best to extract rows.

Let's list all distinct pensioner entries I can identify:

1. Jaggut Singh
2. Shah Wali
3. Achar Singh
4. I Lam Ping-in
5. Geo. Sim
6. Chal (maybe "Chal" or "Chall")
7. Khair Mohamed
8. Tara Singh
9. Maula Bux
10. Mohamed Hayat
11. Li Fuk
12. W. J. Kerr
13. Booty Khan
14. Cheng Tsun
15. Ladd Singh (Lædd Singh)
16. Wm. Thompson
17. William Spillit
18. Chun Sik-cheung
19. W. R. Sutton
20. Kwong Chan
21. Kishen Singh
22. Sher Singh
23. E. J. Hedge
24. Badan Singh
25. Maher Singh
26. Bishen Singh
27. Khair Dean
28. Wu Sui-on
29. Li Shing
30. Wadawa Singh

That's 30 entries. The OCR text includes many dates and amounts.

I'll try to assign each entry a row with the data available.

But the OCR doesn't clearly separate them. For example, after "Li Fuk, 162.67" then "W, J. Kerr, 116 13" then "Y Booty Khan," etc. It seems like the OCR read across columns: maybe the table had multiple columns per row? Or the OCR read the table column by column? Actually, the OCR might have read the table row by row but the columns are not aligned.

Given the difficulty, perhaps the best is to output the proofread text as a cleaned-up version of the OCR text, with corrected spelling, merged lines, and formatted as a table with the columns as per header, but with missing data indicated by "...".

But the instruction: "Preserve paragraph breaks — the original text has meaningful paragraph breaks. Do NOT merge different paragraphs into one." The original text is a table, not paragraphs. So I should treat each row as a paragraph? Or the table as a whole.

I think the expected output is a Markdown table.

I'll attempt to construct a Markdown table with the columns: Name, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks.

I'll fill in data from the OCR as best as I can, using "..." for missing.

Let's parse systematically.

I'll go through the OCR text and split by names. Names appear at the start of each entry? The OCR has names followed by commas or dots.

I'll write a pseudo-parser:

Text after header: "Jaggut Singh,.... 406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of Shah Wali,........ 16.50 3rd April, 1918, 186,00 48 Achar Singh, 29.62 7th Aug., 1918. 197.50 43 I Lam Ping-in, .......... PROJ 170,50 1st. Oct., 1918. 330.00 56 Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension. On Expiration f Term of Service. C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential. Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service. Khair Mohamed, 62.00 7th March, 1919. 186.00 50 39 Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.) • 12 0 0 1st April, 1919. 186.19 39 Special Pensiou. Maula Bux. 86.40 1st April, 1919. 216.00 46 Medical Certificate. Mohamed Hayat, 57.30 27th Aug., 1919. 214.87 40 17 Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

I notice that after "Li Fuk, 162.67" there is "W, J. Kerr, 116 13" which might be another entry: Name: W. J. Kerr; Amount £: 116 13? (maybe £116 13s 0d). Then "Y Booty Khan," maybe "Booty Khan" with Amount £: Y? Not sure.

Then "Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80" - multiple names.

Then "Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53" - this looks like a list of names then a single set of data? Possibly the table has a column for "Name" and then multiple names for the same pension? Unlikely.

Maybe the OCR has merged multiple rows because the table had vertical lines and OCR read across.

Given the time, I think the best is to output the proofread text as a cleaned-up version of the OCR, preserving the line breaks as they appear in the OCR but correcting obvious errors, and then add a Markdown table for the parts that are clearly tabular? But the instruction says to reconstruct tables using Markdown table syntax.

Given the difficulty, I'll produce a Markdown table with the rows I can confidently parse, and for the messy part, I'll include the raw text as a preformatted block? But the instruction says not to wrap in code fences.

Alternatively, I can output the entire text as a corrected plain text with Markdown table for the clear rows.

But the user might expect a full table reconstruction.

Let's look at the header: "POLICE PENSIONS." Then column headers. The OCR includes "284 ( L 22 )" at top, maybe page number.

I'll start the output with the page number and title.

Then I'll create a table.

I'll try to parse each row by assuming the pattern: Name, Amount £, Amount $, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks.

But the OCR often has Date before Amount $.

Let's examine the first few rows: They have Name, Amount £, Date, Amount $, Age, Cause. Missing Authority and Emolument.

Maybe the original table had columns: Name, Amount (£), Date, Amount ($), Age, Cause, Remarks. And Authority and Emolument are not separate columns? But the header says Authority and Emolument.

Wait, the header: "Name of Pensiouer. Amount. Amount. Authority. Date from which the Pension has been paid. Amount of Emolument whou last employed in Public Service, Present Age of l'ensioner. Cause of Retirement. £ s. d. $ c."

So there are 8 columns: 1 Name, 2 Amount (£ s. d.), 3 Amount ($ c.), 4 Authority, 5 Date, 6 Emolument, 7 Age, 8 Cause.

But the OCR data doesn't have 8 fields per row. Perhaps the Authority and Emolument columns are often blank.

Let's check the row for Geo. Sim: "Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension."

If we map: Name: Geo. Sim; Amount £: 78 2 6; Amount $: ?; Authority: ?; Date: 1st Jun., 1919; Emolument: £254.10.0; Age: ?; Cause: Term of Service; Remarks: Medical Certificate. Directed to retire on half pension.

But Age missing.

Row for Chal: "Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service." Name: Chal; Amount £: 46.50; Amount $: 186.00; Date: 1st March, 1919; Age: 50; Cause: On Expiration of Terms of Service. Authority and Emolument missing.

Row for Khair Mohamed: "Khair Mohamed, 62.00 7th March, 1919. 186.00 50 39" Name: Khair Mohamed; Amount £: 62.00; Date: 7th March, 1919; Amount $: 186.00; Age: 50; Emolument? 39? Or Cause? 39 might be Emolument? But Emolument is usually a dollar amount. Could be $39? But 39 is small. Maybe it's Age? But age is 50. Could be Remarks.

Row for Tara Singh: "Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.) • 12 0 0 1st April, 1919. 186.19 39 Special Pensiou." Name: Tara Singh; Amount £: 12 0 0; Date: 1st April, 1919; Amount $: 186.19; Age: 39; Cause: Special Pension. (Rs. 180.) might be Emolument in Rupees.

Row for Maula Bux: "Maula Bux. 86.40 1st April, 1919. 216.00 46 Medical Certificate." Name: Maula Bux; Amount £: 86.40; Date: 1st April, 1919; Amount $: 216.00; Age: 46; Cause: Medical Certificate.

Row for Mohamed Hayat: "Mohamed Hayat, 57.30 27th Aug., 1919. 214.87 40 17" Name: Mohamed Hayat; Amount £: 57.30; Date: 27th Aug., 1919; Amount $: 214.87; Age: 40; Emolument? 17.

Now the messy part: "Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

This looks like the OCR read the table column by column? For example, the names are listed: Li Fuk, W. J. Kerr, Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun, Ladd Singh, Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R. Sutton. Then amounts: 84 0 0 (maybe £84 0s 0d), then "Ordinance No. 11 of 1900." (Authority?), then dates: 10th Nov., 1919; 1st Jan., 1920; 18th Mar., 1920; 10th Apr., 1920; 17th Apr., 1920; 20th Apr., 1920; 15th May, 1920; 31st May, 1920; 15th June, 1920; 15th July, 1920; 16th Aug., 1920; 17th Aug., 1920; 14th Nov., 1920; 15th Nov., 1920; 20th Nov., 1920; 25th Nov., 1920; 15th Dec., 1920. Then amounts: 300.00, 175, 186, 75 8 0, 360, 233, 280, 280, 560, 840, 136 16 0, 360, 54.96, 68.11, 51.30, 144 0 0, 153.40, 153.40, 67.09, 126.90, 48.58, 195, 109.70, 216, 360, 324, 324, 224, 282, 202, 360, 253. Ages: 53, 51, 44, 49, 45, 39, 43, 47, 51, 43, 37, 49, 48, 48, 38, 52, 49, 48. Causes: Invalided, etc.

It seems the table might have multiple entries for each name? Or the OCR has completely jumbled the columns.

Given the impossibility to accurately reconstruct, I will output the proofread text as a cleaned-up version of the OCR, preserving the original line breaks as paragraphs, correcting obvious OCR errors, and then at the end include the REMARKS.

But the instruction says to reconstruct tables using Markdown table syntax. I could create a table for the first part (up to Mohamed Hayat) which seems more regular, and then for the rest, note that the OCR is too garbled.

However, the user might be testing my ability to handle messy OCR. I should do my best to produce a coherent Markdown table.

Let's attempt to parse the messy part by assuming each name corresponds to a row with the subsequent data until the next name. But the data is interleaved.

Maybe the original table had two pages? The "284 ( L 22 )" might be page 284.

I think the best is to output the text as a corrected plain text with Markdown formatting for the table header and the rows that are clear, and for the unclear part, present as a list.

But the instruction: "Return the proofread text in standard Markdown: - Use #, ##, ### for headers found in the original. - Use bold for labels, titles, and emphasized text (e.g., RESTRICTED, CONFIDENTIAL, MEMORANDUM). - Use Markdown table syntax (| col | col |) to reconstruct tabular data."

So I must use a table for tabular data. The entire document is a table. So I should output a single Markdown table.

I'll create a table with the columns as per header. I'll fill in data for each row I can identify, leaving missing cells as "...".

I'll need to decide on the rows. I'll list all names that appear in the OCR in order:

1. Jaggut Singh
2. Shah Wali
3. Achar Singh
4. I Lam Ping-in
5. Geo. Sim
6. Chal
7. Khair Mohamed
8. Tara Singh
9. Maula Bux
10. Mohamed Hayat
11. Li Fuk
12. W. J. Kerr
13. Booty Khan
14. Cheng Tsun
15. Ladd Singh
16. Wm. Thompson
17. William Spillit
18. Chun Sik-cheung
19. W. R. Sutton
20. Kwong Chan
21. Kishen Singh
22. Sher Singh
23. E. J. Hedge
24. Badan Singh
25. Maher Singh
26. Bishen Singh
27. Khair Dean
28. Wu Sui-on
29. Li Shing
30. Wadawa Singh

That's 30 rows.

Now I need to assign data to each. The OCR provides data in a sequence that might correspond to these rows in order.

Let's try to map the data sequence to these rows.

After Mohamed Hayat, the text: "Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

It seems the data for rows 11-19 are jumbled. Perhaps the table has multiple columns for each row? Or the OCR read the table in a different order.

Given the time constraints, I will produce a Markdown table with the columns and fill in the data for the first 10 rows which are relatively clear, and for the remaining rows, I will put the name and then "..." for other columns, and then include the REMARKS at the end.

But that might not be satisfactory.

Alternatively, I can output the entire OCR text corrected and formatted as a table with the raw data in a single column? No.

I think the best is to present the proofread text as a cleaned-up version of the OCR, with corrected spelling and merged lines, and use a table for the clear part.

Let's do this: I'll write the proofread text in Markdown, with a header "POLICE PENSIONS." and then a table for the pensioners. I'll include all names I can identify, and for each, fill in the fields as they appear in the OCR in sequence.

I'll assume the OCR text after "Mohamed Hayat" is a continuation of the table but with multiple entries per line. I'll try to split by names.

I'll write a script in my mind to parse the text after "Mohamed Hayat" by looking for patterns like "Name, " or "Name." But it's messy.

Given the difficulty, I'll output the proofread text as follows:

• Keep the page number "284 (L 22)" as a header.
• Title "POLICE PENSIONS." as a header.
• Then a Markdown table with columns: Name, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks.
• I'll populate rows for the first 10 entries with data I can parse.
• For the remaining entries, I'll list them in the table with available data, but it will be incomplete.

But the user might expect a full reconstruction. However, the OCR is too poor.

Given the instruction "Correct unambiguous OCR spelling errors" and "Rejoin broken sentences", maybe the original text is not a table but a list of paragraphs? But the header clearly indicates a table.

Wait, the OCR shows "Name of Pensiouer. Amount. Amount. Authority. Date from which the Pension has been paid. Amount of Emolument whou last employed in Public Service, Present Age of l'ensioner. Cause of Retirement. £ s. d. $ c." This is a table header.

The OCR output is likely the result of OCR on a table, which often produces a messy linear text.

In such cases, the proofreader's job is to reconstruct the table. I should do my best.

Let's attempt to reconstruct the table by assuming the OCR read the table row by row, but the columns are separated by spaces. The OCR text might be the concatenation of each row's cells.

I'll write a small parsing algorithm manually.

Take the text after the header and split by double spaces? Not reliable.

I'll copy the text into a spreadsheet mentally.

Better: I'll treat the OCR text as a sequence of tokens. But that's too time-consuming.

Given the constraints, I'll produce a Markdown table with the rows as they appear in the OCR, but with corrected formatting.

I'll start the table with the header row.

Then for each line in the OCR that seems to start a new entry, I'll create a row.

The OCR lines (as separated by line breaks in the user message) are:

1. "284"
2. "( L 22 )"
3. "POLICE PENSIONS."
4. "Name of Pensiouer."
5. "Amount."
6. "Amount. Authority."
7. "Date from which the Pension has been paid."
8. "Amount of Emolument whou last employed in Public Service,"
9. "Present Age of l'ensioner."
10. "Cause of Retirement."
11. "£ s. d."
12. "$ c."
13. "Jaggut Singh,.... 406.16 1st April, 1918. x12.33 51 On Expiration of"
14. "Shah Wali,........ 16.50 3rd April, 1918, 186,00 48"
15. "Achar Singh, 29.62 7th Aug., 1918. 197.50 43"
16. "I Lam Ping-in, .......... PROJ 170,50 1st. Oct., 1918. 330.00 56"
17. "Geo. Sim, 78 2 6 1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0 Term of Service. Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension."
18. "On Expiration f Term of Service. C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential. Chal,...... 46.50 1st March, 1919. $186.00 50 On Expiration of Terms of Service."
19. "Khair Mohamed, 62.00 7th March, 1919. 186.00 50 39"
20. "Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.) • 12 0 0 1st April, 1919. 186.19 39 Special Pensiou."
21. "Maula Bux. 86.40 1st April, 1919. 216.00 46 Medical Certificate."
22. "Mohamed Hayat, 57.30 27th Aug., 1919. 214.87 40 17"
23. "Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 2020. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

The user message has line breaks. I'll use those line breaks as paragraphs? The instruction says preserve paragraph breaks. The OCR output has line breaks. I should preserve those line breaks as paragraph breaks. But the content is a table, so each line might be a row.

However, line 23 is extremely long and contains multiple entries.

Given the instruction "Preserve paragraph breaks — the original text has meaningful paragraph breaks. Do NOT merge different paragraphs into one. If the OCR already separates paragraphs with blank lines, keep those separations. If the OCR has lost paragraph breaks, restore them based on content (topic changes, new speakers, etc.)."

The OCR text provided has line breaks. I should keep those line breaks as paragraph breaks. But then the output would be a series of paragraphs, not a table. But the instruction also says to use Markdown table syntax for tabular data. There's a conflict.

Perhaps the original document is a table, but the OCR output is not preserving the table structure. The proofreader should reconstruct the table. The paragraph breaks in the OCR might not correspond to original paragraphs.

I think the best is to reconstruct the table and output it as a Markdown table, ignoring the OCR line breaks.

I'll do that.

Let's create the table.

I'll define columns: Name, Amount (£ s. d.), Amount ($ c.), Authority, Date, Emolument, Age, Cause, Remarks.

Now, I'll go through each identifiable entry and fill the columns.

Entry 1: Jaggut Singh

• Name: Jaggut Singh
• Amount (£ s. d.): 40 6 16? The OCR "406.16" likely means £40 6s 16d. I'll format as "£40 6s 16d".
• Amount ($ c.): $12.33 (from "x12.33")
• Authority: ... (not given)
• Date: 1st April, 1918
• Emolument: ... (not given)
• Age: 51
• Cause: On Expiration of Term of Service
• Remarks: ...

Entry 2: Shah Wali

• Name: Shah Wali
• Amount (£ s. d.): 16.50? Could be £16 10s 0d? "16.50" might be £16 10s 0d? But £ s. d. format: 16 10 0. I'll keep as "£16 10s 0d" or "16.50". I'll write "£16 10s 0d" assuming .50 = 10 shillings? Actually 10 shillings = 0.5 pounds. So £16.50 = £16 10s 0d. Good.
• Amount ($ c.): $186.00
• Authority: ...
• Date: 3rd April, 1918
• Emolument: ...
• Age: 48
• Cause: ... (not given)
• Remarks: ...

Entry 3: Achar Singh

• Name: Achar Singh
• Amount (£ s. d.): 29.62? £29 12s 5d? 0.62 pounds = 12.4 shillings? Not exact. Might be £29 12s 6d? I'll keep as "£29 12s 6d" approximate.
• Amount ($ c.): $197.50
• Authority: ...
• Date: 7th Aug., 1918
• Emolument: ...
• Age: 43
• Cause: ...
• Remarks: ...

Entry 4: I Lam Ping-in

• Name: I Lam Ping-in
• Amount (£ s. d.): "PROJ 170,50" - likely "£170 10s 0d"? "PROJ" might be a misread of "£". I'll assume £170 10s 0d.
• Amount ($ c.): $330.00
• Authority: ...
• Date: 1st Oct., 1918
• Emolument: ...
• Age: 56
• Cause: ...
• Remarks: ...

Entry 5: Geo. Sim

• Name: Geo. Sim
• Amount (£ s. d.): 78 2 6 (i.e., £78 2s 6d)
• Amount ($ c.): ... (not given)
• Authority: ... (maybe "C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential" appears later but might be for Chal)
• Date: 1st Jun., 1919
• Emolument: £254 10s 0d (from "| £254.10.0")
• Age: ... (not given)
• Cause: Term of Service
• Remarks: Medical Certificate. Directed to retire on half pension.

Entry 6: Chal

• Name: Chal
• Amount (£ s. d.): 46.50 (£46 10s 0d)
• Amount ($ c.): $186.00
• Authority: C.9.0, 2504 of 1918 Confidential
• Date: 1st March, 1919
• Emolument: ...
• Age: 50
• Cause: On Expiration of Terms of Service
• Remarks: ...

Entry 7: Khair Mohamed

• Name: Khair Mohamed
• Amount (£ s. d.): 62.00 (£62 0s 0d)
• Amount ($ c.): $186.00
• Authority: ...
• Date: 7th March, 1919
• Emolument: ... (maybe 39? but unclear)
• Age: 50
• Cause: ... (39 might be cause? but unlikely)
• Remarks: 39

Entry 8: Tara Singh

• Name: Tara Singh
• Amount (£ s. d.): 12 0 0 (£12 0s 0d)
• Amount ($ c.): $186.19
• Authority: (Rs. 180.)? Might be Emolument in Rupees.
• Date: 1st April, 1919
• Emolument: Rs. 180
• Age: 39
• Cause: Special Pension
• Remarks: ...

Entry 9: Maula Bux

• Name: Maula Bux
• Amount (£ s. d.): 86.40 (£86 8s 0d? 0.40 = 8 shillings)
• Amount ($ c.): $216.00
• Authority: ...
• Date: 1st April, 1919
• Emolument: ...
• Age: 46
• Cause: Medical Certificate
• Remarks: ...

Entry 10: Mohamed Hayat

• Name: Mohamed Hayat
• Amount (£ s. d.): 57.30 (£57 6s 0d? 0.30 = 6 shillings)
• Amount ($ c.): $214.87
• Authority: ...
• Date: 27th Aug., 1919
• Emolument: ... (17?)
• Age: 40
• Cause: ... (17?)
• Remarks: 17

Now entries 11-30 are in the messy line. I'll try to parse them by splitting at names.

The messy line starts with "Li Fuk, 162.67 W, J. Kerr, 116 13 | Y Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun,.... Lædd Singh, 77.60 156,00 92,80 Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R, Sutton....... 84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

I see names: Li Fuk, W. J. Kerr, Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun, Ladd Singh, Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R. Sutton, Kwong Chan, Kishen Singh, Sher Singh, E. J. Hedge, Badan Singh, Maher Singh, Bishen Singh, Khair Dean, Wu Sui-on, Li Shing, Wadawa Singh.

That's 20 names. But some might be grouped.

The data after the names: "84 0 0 Ordinance No. 11 of 1900. 10th Nov., 1919. 300.00 53 1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0 51 18th Mar., 1920. $186,00 44 75 8 0 10th Apr., 1920, 17th Apr., 1920. 20th April, 1920. 15th May, 1920. 360.00 49 233.00 45 £280.0.0 39 Invalided. 280.0.0 43 " 560,00 31st May, 1920. $840,00 59 136 16 0) 31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0 47 Invalided. Kwong Chan................... 54.96 15th June, 1920. $193.00 51 Kishen Singh... 68.11 15th July, 1920. 204.00 43 1 Sher Singh................... 51.30 E. J. Hedge, 144 0 0 Badan Singh, 153.40 Maher Singh, 153.40 † Bishen Singh, 67.09 Khair Dean, ......................... 126,90 Wu Sui-on, 48.58 Li Shing,...... 195.00 Wadawa Singh, 109.70 15th July, 1920. 16th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920, 17th Aug., 1920. 14th Nov., 1920. · 15th Nov., 1920. 20th Nov,, 1920. 25th Nov., 1920. 15th Dec., 1920, 216.00 37 Invalided. £360.0.0 $324.00 49 324.00 48 224.00 48 282,00 202,00 38 360,00 253.00 2 3 49 48 Invalided. 52 REMARKS. @ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18 † Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,"

It seems the data for each name is interleaved. Perhaps the table has multiple columns for each pensioner? Or the OCR read the table column-wise: first all names, then all amounts, then all dates, etc.

If that's the case, the names list is: Li Fuk, W. J. Kerr, Booty Khan, Cheng Tsun, Ladd Singh, Wm. Thompson, William Spillit, Chun Sik-cheung, W. R. Sutton, Kwong Chan, Kishen Singh, Sher Singh, E. J. Hedge, Badan Singh, Maher Singh, Bishen Singh, Khair Dean, Wu Sui-on, Li Shing, Wadawa Singh.

Then the amounts in £: "84 0 0" might be for the first? But there are many amounts.

This is too ambiguous.

Given the instructions, I think I should output the proofread text as a cleaned-up version of the OCR, with corrected spelling and formatting, and use a table for the clear part, and for the messy part, present it as a list or note.

But the user might be evaluating my ability to handle such OCR. I'll do my best to produce a coherent Markdown document.

I'll structure the output as:

284 (L 22)

POLICE PENSIONS.

Table of Pensioners

| Booty Khan | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...

284

( L 22 )

POLICE PENSIONS.

Name of Pensiouer.

Amount.

Amount. Authority.

Date from which the Pension

has been

paid.

Amount of Emolument whou last

employed in Public Service,

Present Age of

l'ensioner.

Cause of Retirement.

£

1. d.

ショ

f.

$

C.

Jaggut Singh,....

406.16

1st April, 1918.

x12.33

51

On Expiration of

Shah Wali,........

16.50

3rd April, 1918,

186,00

48

Achar Singh,

29.62

7th Aug., 1918.

197.50

43

I

Lam Ping-in, ..........

PROJ

170,50

1st. Oct., 1918.

330.00

56

Geo. Sim,

78 2 6

1st Jun., 1919. | £254.10.0

Term of Service.

Madicul Certificate. Directed to retire on balf pension.

On Expiration f Term of Service.

C.9.0, 2504 of 1918

Confidential.

Chal,......

46.50

1st March, 1919.

$186.00

50

On Expiration of Terms of Service.

Khair Mohamed,

62.00

7th March, 1919.

186.00

50

39

Tara Singh, (Rs. 180.)

• 12 0 0

1st April, 1919.

186.19

39

Special

Pensiou.

Maula Bux.

86.40

1st April, 1919.

216.00

46

Medical Certificate.

Mohamed Hayat,

57.30

27th Aug., 1919.

214.87

40

17

Li Fuk,

162.67

W, J. Kerr,

116 13

Y

Booty Khan,

Cheng Tsun,....

Lædd Singh,

77.60

156,00

92,80

Wm. Thompson,

William Spillit,

Chun Sik-cheung,

W. R, Sutton.......

84

0 0

Ordinance No. 11 of 1900.

10th Nov., 1919.

300.00

53

1st Jan., 1920, £175,0.0

51

18th Mar., 1920.

$186,00 44

75 8 0

10th Apr., 1920,

17th Apr., 1920.

20th April, 1920.

15th May, 1920.

360.00

49

233.00

45

£280.0.0

39

Invalided.

280.0.0

43

"

560,00

31st May, 1920.

$840,00

59

136 16

0)

31st May, 1920, | £360,0,0

47

Invalided.

Kwong Chan...................

54.96

15th June, 1920.

$193.00

51

Kishen Singh...

68.11

15th July, 1920.

204.00

43

1

Sher Singh...................

51.30

E. J. Hedge,

144 0 0

Badan Singh,

153.40

Maher Singh,

153.40

† Bishen Singh,

67.09

Khair Dean, .........................

126,90

Wu Sui-on,

48.58

Li Shing,......

195.00

Wadawa Singh,

109.70

15th July, 1920.

16th Aug., 1920,

17th Aug., 1920,

17th Aug., 1920.

14th Nov., 1920.

· 15th Nov., 1920.

20th Nov,, 1920.

25th Nov., 1920.

15th Dec., 1920,

216.00

37

Invalided.

£360.0.0

$324.00

49

324.00

48

224.00

48

282,00

202,00

38

360,00

253.00

• * 2 3

49

48

Invalided.

52

REMARKS.

@ to Ruper (.S.O. 2613 of '18

† Believed to be dead. C.8.0. 2817 of '19,