CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848 — Page 230

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Board

of

Trade

ELE

Freight

ice

for the resumption of the land by

the Crown

It is stated that

the Petitioner was not the

real owner of the ground in

question, but that he took out

leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent.

We

concur with the Local

Authorities in

thinking that the

present application is one which

may

be properly complied with. We have the honour to be,

Your obedient humble servants

M.Speedoch

228

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Board of Trade

ELE Freight ice for the resumption of the land by the Crown

It is stated that the Petitioner was not the real owner of the ground in question, but that he took out leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent.

We concur with the Local Authorities in thinking that the present application is one which may be properly complied with. We have the honour to be,

Your obedient humble servants

M.Speedoch

228

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Board of Trade

Freeing ice for the resumption of the land by the Crown

It is stated that the Petitioner was not the real owner of the ground in question, but that he took out leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent.

We concur with the Local Authorities in thinking that the present application is one which may be properly complied with. We have the honour to be,

Your obedient humble servants

M. Speedoch

228

However, the best representation following the exact format requested (HTML with

for paragraphs) and the corrections is already provided above.

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Board of Trade ELE Freight ice for the resumption of the land by the Crown It is stated that the Petitioner was not the real owner of the ground in question, but that he took out leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent. We concur with the Local Authorities in thinking that the present application is one which may be properly complied with. We have the honour to be, Your obedient humble servants M.Speedoch 228 However, to follow the exact instructions and improve the text: Board of Trade ELE Freight ice for the resumption of the land by the Crown It is stated that the Petitioner was not the real owner of the ground in question, but that he took out leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent. We concur with the Local Authorities in thinking that the present application is one which may be properly complied with. We have the honour to be, Your obedient humble servants M.Speedoch 228 Let's correct and reformat it according to the given rules: ## Step 1: Rejoin broken sentences and correct spelling errors The text is broken into lines. Let's first rejoin the sentences. ## Step 2: Correct spelling and spacing issues Correct "ELE Freig ice" to a sensible phrase, possibly "ELE Freight ice" doesn't make sense; it could be a misrecognition. "Trad E" could be "Trade". "honour tobe" should be "honour to be". "moperly" should be "properly". شدکه" seems to be a misrecognition and is not relevant to the context, so it should be removed. "MoSpeedoch" could be a name, possibly "M. Speedoch". ## Step 3: Apply Markdown formatting The text doesn't seem to have headers or bold text that needs to be formatted using Markdown. ## Step 4: Check for file references and page numbering There's no clear file reference in the given text. "228" at the end could be a page number, but it doesn't follow the "Page XX" format. The final version, following the instructions and correcting the text: Board of Trade Freeing ice for the resumption of the land by the Crown It is stated that the Petitioner was not the real owner of the ground in question, but that he took out leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent. We concur with the Local Authorities in thinking that the present application is one which may be properly complied with. We have the honour to be, Your obedient humble servants M. Speedoch 228 However, the best representation following the exact format requested (HTML with for paragraphs) and the corrections is already provided above.
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Board of Trad ELE Freig ice for the resumption of the land by the Crown It is stated that the Petitioner was not the real owner of the ground in question, but that he took out leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent. We concur with the Local Authorities in thinking that the present application is one which may be moperly complied with. We have the honom tobe, ر شدکه Your obedien humble servants MoSpeedoch 228
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Board

of

Trad

ELE

Freig

ice

for the resumption of the land by

the Crown

It is stated that

the Petitioner was not the

real owner of the ground in

question, but that he took out

leases for his late employer M. Pope, who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent.

We

concur with the Local

Authorities in

thinking that the

present application is one which

may

be moperly complied with. We have the honom tobe,

ر شدکه

Your obedien humble servants

MoSpeedoch

228

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