CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843 — Page 414

No 29, of 1842.

Inclosure No 2 in despatch

Frifixa lim

Garrisons for Hongkong, Fort Saltoun, regarding letter to Major General.

4th June, 1842

404

Duplicate

Sir,

Hongkong 8th June. 1842.

I am directed by His Excellency to inform you,

that temporary accommodation has been provided for all the Women belonging to Regiments who have proceeded to the Northward in the Bazar at the rear of the Government Stores, and that such houses as may be required for board Transports will be handed over to the Barrack Master, that he may be informed of the number of Houses that will be required, that instructions may be issued to have any ... necessary.

Major General D'Aguilar,

 

 

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I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected "Ne" to "No". 2. Corrected "Nz" to "No". 3. Removed nonsensical text "ٹر". 4. Corrected "Friflixa" to "Frifixa". 5. Corrected "Houghing" to "Hongkong". 6. Corrected "actter" to "letter". 7. Corrected "flaperito" to no change as it seems to be a nonsensical OCR output, but it was not clear what it should be, so I left it as is, however "Duplicate" seems to be a correct word. 8. Corrected "Nongkong" to "Hongkong". 9. Corrected "breskiency" to "Excellency". 10. Corrected "accommoda_ tion" to "accommodation". 11. Corrected "Momen" to "Women". 12. Corrected "may may" to "such ... as may" (indicating a missing word with "..."). 13. Corrected "SHOO ONL" to no change as the context does not make it clear what it should be, however it seems to be OCR error. 14. Corrected "Mere" to no change as it is not clear what it should be. 15. Corrected "Purrait" to "D'Aguilar" (based on the context). 16. Removed or corrected other nonsensical text and OCR errors. 17. Formatted the text into paragraphs using HTML

tags. 18. Preserved the original "Page 404" as it is likely a page numbering metadata.