CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856 — Page 286

4153 Hong Kong H.T. Dowied

3.A. Andille Temple Lane

282

Thursday 20 March 1856.

ch: magistrates of Hong Kong 26.3.56.

noted

Understanding that the Chief Justice of Hong Kong is now vacant; I beg leave respectfully to offer my application for that appointment. I was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1841, and for some years attended the Home Circuit and the Surrey Sessions; but, of late years, that attendance for some time, having been occupied in other paths of the profession.

Thus I have been somewhat...

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4153 Hong Kong H.T. Dowied

3.A. Andille Temple Lane

282

Thursday 20 March 1856.

ch: magistrates of Hong Kong 26.3.56.

noted

Understanding that the Chief Justice of Hong Kong is now vacant; I beg leave respectfully to offer my application for that appointment. I was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1841, and for some years attended the Home Circuit and the Surrey Sessions; but, of late years, that attendance for some time, having been occupied in other paths of the profession.

Thus I have been somewhat...

Given the original text and instructions, it seems there was an attempt to correct OCR output. The date "26.3.36" was corrected to "26.3.56" to match the year 1856 mentioned earlier in the text, assuming "ch: magistratesnap" was a typo and should be "ch: magistrates of Hong Kong". "Dowied" and "Andille" are left as is due to the instruction not to change unclear or potentially correct names without clear evidence. "ustuctfully" was corrected to "respectfully", "tilskip" to "Justice", "Hongling" to "Hong Kong", and "ser" was not corrected as it seems to be part of a non-English or corrupted text segment not directly relevant to the main English text correction task. "cars" was corrected to "years" and "State" to "late". The rest of the text was corrected for minor OCR errors and formatted according to the given instructions.