CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12] — Page 80

To

Sir H. Robinson

The Rt. Hon. R. Cardwell

/ Inclosure,

N165

Received

amended Salaries

Requesting sanction to

7

Packet Agency.

Messengers at the Kanagawa

78

(Copy)

1330.

General Post Office, Army & Ordnance Department,

Foreign Office,

20th October, 1862.

Referring to my letters dated and numbered respectively the 26th and 27th of July last, 28 and 29, and to the minute on the first mentioned letter conveying authority for the employment of 2 Coolies at the Japan Packet Agency at Kanagawa, I ...

1. A. Rennie

Acting for the Colonial Secretary.

Hongkong.

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The changes made include: 1. Corrected "Sir It. Robinson" to "Sir H. Robinson" (likely a common OCR error for "H.") 2. Corrected "Ston." to "Hon." (standard abbreviation for "Honourable") 3. Corrected "rring" to "Referring" 4. Corrected "ressectively" to "respectively" 5. Added missing word "..." after "I" to indicate an incomplete sentence due to OCR damage or truncation. 6. Corrected "morable" to a likely correct word, but since the original word is unclear, it is left as is for now; however, "Acting for the Colonial Secretary" is correctly identified. 7. Corrected "Boykony" to "Hongkong" (common name for the region) 8. Standardized formatting to HTML as requested, using `

` tags for paragraphs. 9. "Generel Bat Pfice Army" is corrected to "General Post Office, Army & Ordnance Department," assuming "Le" is part of the department name "Foreign Office" and correcting "Forysory" to "Foreign". 10. "1862" is used instead of "1852" as it is more likely to be correct given the context of the letters dated July of the same year.