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I have the honor to acknowledge

receipt of your despatch No. 96, 26th May

Commenting

No. 97.

on the remarks offered in

my dispatch of the 26th March on the financial Condition of the Colony

The Right Honorable

Edward Cardwell, M.P.,

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,

It appears that the original text was heavily distorted due to OCR errors. I have made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors: e.g., "deeipt" to "receipt", "despatch N. 9o." to "despatch No. 96", "Centrisy" to (not corrected as the correct word is unclear), "Hemovable" to "Honorable", "Heer" to "Her", "Cardwell" was likely correct but "Gardwell" is a possible surname. 2. Removed or corrected nonsensical characters and words: e.g., "Якая", "д", "妮", "trong trong s". 3. Reordered some text to form coherent sentences. 4. Added paragraph breaks to improve readability. 5. Removed extra spaces and corrected some spacing issues. However, the original text still contains many unclear or nonsensical words and phrases, suggesting that the OCR output was of poor quality. Further manual review and correction may be necessary to produce a fully accurate and readable text.