CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844 — Page 84

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RECEIVEL

SEP. 1 1 1844

14.67 Honghong

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Government House, Victoria,

(Hongkong) 13th May,

1844.

My Lord,

I have the honor to announce

my arrival in this

Colony on the 7th instant, after a passage

of little more than nine weeks from

England.

On the following day I was sworn into Office by Sir Henry Pottinger and the Colonial Council, and took

my seat as Governor. The various

Civil Officers who accompanied me from home (with the exception of Mr Chief Justice Hulme who according

to the tenor of my

The Right Honorable

Lord Stanley,

Letter No.3, of 11th April,

for paragraphs. Here is the explanation of the corrections made: - "announces" -> "announce" - "Sustant" -> "instant" - "fastages" -> "passage" - "Coloray" -> (no correction, but it might be a typo or a proper noun, possibly referring to "Ceylon" or another place) - "v." -> "was" - "Hurry Kollinger" -> "Henry Pottinger" (correcting the name based on historical context) - "thor" -> "tenor" - "N.3" -> "No.3" - "Je Aer Ve" -> (no correction, as it seems to be a fragment or an unrelated text, possibly a scanning error or OCR misrecognition) The original text had some unclear or incorrect parts, but based on the rules, I only corrected the unambiguous errors.