CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844 — Page 61

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With reference to Ford Aberdeen's Despatch No: 60 of the 20th May 1843,1 in which Her Lordship directs that for the future the Expenses of the Superintendents Office, and Consular Establishment are to be defrayed from the Funds received from the Chinese Government instead of by Bills drawn on the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, it will be requisite for us to determine the rate at which the Dollar is to be issued, particularly to those Officers of the former Dept whose Salaries are established in Sterling money, and hitherto paid by Bills on England, which they disposed of at the current rate of Exchange. This rate may presently be quoted at 4/1½ to 4/3 per Spanish Dollar; and Mexican and other Republican Dollars, which are at a considerable discount, have been obtained by Government at ... in Exchange for good Bills at 4/1 low, and probably will not long continue, though I do not think that it is likely to range so high as 4/5 or 4/6 for many months to come. I may add that the inquiries of the Commissary General have led him to recommend that the Officer Commanding the Forces ...

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m4500ox. Copy. Memorandum. REC 69 With reference to Ford Aberdeen's Despatch No: 60 of the 20th May 1843,1 in which Her Lordship directs that for the future the Expenses of the Superintendents Office, and Consular Establishment are to be defrayed from the Funds received from the Chinese Government instead of by Bills drawn on the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, it will be requisite for us to determine the rate at which the Dollar is to be issued, particularly to those Officers of the former Dept whose Salaries are established in Sterling money, and hitherto paid by Bills on England, which they disposed of at the current rate of Exchange. This rate may presently be quoted at 4/1½ to 4/3 per Spanish Dollar; and Mexican and other Republican Dollars, which are at a considerable discount, have been obtained by Government at ... in Exchange for good Bills at 4/1 low, and probably will not long continue, though I do not think that it is likely to range so high as 4/5 or 4/6 for many months to come. I may add that the inquiries of the Commissary General have led him to recommend that the Officer Commanding the Forces ... # Step-by-step analysis of the problem: 1. **Original text has OCR errors**: The original text contains numerous OCR errors, including misspellings, incorrect spacing, and punctuation errors. 2. **Format the text into standard Markdown**: The task requires transforming the text into standard Markdown format. 3. **Correct spelling errors**: The primary task is to correct spelling errors in the text. 4. **Fix spacing issues and rejoin broken sentences**: The text has spacing issues and broken sentences that need to be corrected. 5. **Restore paragraph breaks**: The original text has incorrect paragraph breaks that need to be restored. # Fixed solution: The corrected text is output in HTML format using `` for paragraphs. # Explanation of changes: * **Corrected spelling errors**: Errors such as "Berpatch" to "Despatch", "brothay" to "20th May", "Supercitraverte" to "Superintendents", "fout" to "Government", "Prells" to "Bills", "tog" to "to", "Collar" to "Dollar", "Dept" to "Dept.", "well" to "months", and "Gucial" to "Officer". * **Fixed spacing issues**: Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces to improve readability. * **Rejoined broken sentences**: Merged broken sentences to form coherent paragraphs. * **Restored paragraph breaks**: Restored original paragraph breaks to improve text structure. # Tests and example uses: The corrected text can be used for historical research, archival purposes, or further analysis. The output in HTML format using `` for paragraphs ensures that the text is readable and accessible.
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Memorandum.

REC

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With reference & Ford Aberdeen's Berpatch h: 60 of the brothay 1843, I which Her Lordships directs that for the juture the Expences of the Supercitraverte Office, and Consular Estable are to be re fraged from the Funds received from the Chinese fout wit

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