CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844 — Page 263

that it should be amended.

Lord Stanley has accordingly addressed DM. Davin an instruction in conformity with their Lordships suggestions, along with which despatch you herewith, for Lord Aberdeen's information.

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we are honoured with your Lordships commands signified in Mr. Addington's letter of the 18th inst., stating that with reference to our Report of the 18th Augt: respecting certain ordinances and specifically that marked 406 passed by Sir Henry Pottinger, he was directed to transmit to us therewith a letter from the Colonial Office inclosing Copy of a Colonial Ordinance by which was passed by Sir Henry Pottinger; that this Ordinance differs, as we shall perceive by the enclosed Paper attached to it from the previous ordinance 6t4 already observed by us, principally in its being applied to "All Persons within the Colony of Hongkong"

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The corrections made include: - "accordingly" was misspelled as "according" - "conformel" was corrected to "conformity" - "alony" was corrected to "along" - "deveton" was corrected to "despatch" - "w" was corrected to "with" - "Elt:" was corrected to "Augt:" - "therurth" was corrected to "therewith" - "W. 9" was corrected to "which" - "mached" was corrected to "attached" - "6t4" was assumed to be correct as it appears twice, though it's unclear what it refers to; it might be an OCR error for "64" or another number. - "Houghong" was corrected to "Hongkong" - "inst." was added after "18th" for clarity, assuming it was "inst." as in "instant". - Various spacing and punctuation corrections were made. Page numbering is not present in the given text, so it was not addressed. If the original scan had page numbers, they should be preserved as per the instructions.