CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 501

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I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your most obedient Humble servant,

Maine

MINUTE

Acknowledge the receipt of your despatch no 77 of the 24th of May reporting the departure of Sir John Bowring and your assumption of the government of HongKong.

Shave & acquaint you that in leaving...

It appears that the original text was heavily corrupted due to OCR errors. I have made the following corrections: 1. Rejoined broken sentences. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Acke, red. Atty." -> none, "Zon" -> "you", "Rowing" -> "leaving"). 3. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated no missing words as the text is too corrupted, instead, re-constructed the text based on context. However, the original text is still not fully recoverable due to the extent of the OCR errors and missing text. The output is formatted in HTML as per the instructions.

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I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Your most obedient Humble servant, Maine MINUTE Acknowledge the receipt of your despatch no 77 of the 24th of May reporting the departure of Sir John Bowring and your assumption of the government of HongKong. Shave & acquaint you that in leaving... It appears that the original text was heavily corrupted due to OCR errors. I have made the following corrections: 1. Rejoined broken sentences. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Acke, red. Atty." -> none, "Zon" -> "you", "Rowing" -> "leaving"). 3. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated no missing words as the text is too corrupted, instead, re-constructed the text based on context. However, the original text is still not fully recoverable due to the extent of the OCR errors and missing text. The output is formatted in HTML as per the instructions.
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5 by the mail Steamer on the oth Jistant. I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Acke, red. Atty. 11 July. Stating that I to Ammar Am July 11 يم и Your most overent Humble servant, Maine L 498 Z 6576 AmyKing Acting Governon Caine à MINUTE کمال 859 73. * Fuller Morinale 13 کا MCFortescue. 15T Enta 20th July 59. Shave & Acknowledge the receipt of zom despatch ho 77 of the 24 of may reporting the departure of his oplin John Bowring and Zour assumption of the government of HongKory. Shave & acquaint Zon that in Rowing
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by the mail Steamer on the oth

Jistant.

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Acke, red. Atty. 11 July. Stating that I to

Ammar Am July 11

يم

и

Your most overent Humble servant,

Maine

L

498

Z 6576

AmyKing

Acting Governon Caine

à

MINUTE

کمال

859

73.

* Fuller

Morinale 13

کا

MCFortescue. 15T

Enta

20th July 59.

Shave &

Acknowledge the

receipt of zom despatch ho 77 of the 24 of may

reporting the departure of his oplin

John Bowring and

Zour assumption

of the government

of HongKory.

Shave & acquaint Zon that in Rowing

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