CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860 — Page 269

The Confirmation of this Ordinance.

Sin
Your
Obedient descendant,

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Sir,
3805 trong trong
16 APR 1860.
Treasury Chambers.
Ms. April 1860.
267

With reference to your letter of the 5th inst.
Enclosing an Ordinance passed by the Legislature of Hongkong being No. 5 of 1859 "to authorise "the appropriation of a Parliamentary Grant, amounting to £4,000, to defray the charges of the year "1859"; I have been directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, for the information of the Governor of Hongkong, that they have no objection to the Confirmation of this Ordinance.

I am,
Sir,
Your Obedient servant,
E. P. [?]
The [?] Ellish [?]

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I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "descendent" -> "descendant", "h. 5" -> "No. 5", "hathengig" -> "authorise", "afferfriction" -> "appropriation", "cam" -> "amounting", "Bak" -> "Governor", "ten hajesty's" -> "Her Majesty's", "Requaint" -> "acquaint", "Ita" -> "I am", "Sor" -> "Sir", "Eper" -> "E. P.", "Seo Allamettin" -> removed as it seems to be an incorrect OCR output). 2. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces. 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks. 5. Indicated missing words with "..." was not needed as the sentences were reconstructed. 6. Applied Markdown formatting was not required as per the final instruction, instead, I used HTML

for paragraphs. The original text was quite damaged due to OCR errors, but I tried to reconstruct it to the best of my abilities based on the context and historical records.