CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866 — Page 520

Recounting place for the Carpe fleet of American Whalers in the Pacific. Over 100 Square-rigged people are expected to be in this port.

The native population continues to decrease very rapidly, whilst there are numbers of American, European, Chinese, and other settlers here not menacing. The Americans are the most numerous and influential, and these numbers will join rather than be influenced by the natives of other communities from the causes previously mentioned.

The main product of these islands is sugar, which is almost entirely shipped to California and Oregon, although an excessive duty is charged on this article amounting to 100 per cent.

Many care to enable the Planters of Louisiana to send their sugar round Cape Horn to compete with that shipped from here. It would be an immense advantage to the Planters here and to the East generally if this duty were taken off.

Efforts have been and will be made to get a sort of special...

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I've made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Pacif. Irators" to "Pacific", "Squace - Regged bepoel" to "Square-rigged people", "proppulation" to "population", "cratenues" to "continues", "decease" to "decrease", "wellst" to "whilst", "Eurpion" to "European", "Chunere" to "Chinese", "humber" to "numbers", "menasing" to "menacing", "Amencaus" to "Americans", "mmutices" to "communities", "Pujar" to "sugar", "excessert" to "excessive", "feat." to "cent", "Alte" potentially to "Also" but left as is due to unclear context, "in its bake" potentially to "in its wake" but left as is, "bitte" to "better", "Happed" to "shipped", "Hard bece" unclear, "Hood" to "It would", "Este" to "East", "Od Go they" unclear, "cd" to "could", "Offalymas" potentially a proper noun or error, "DJ" potentially an abbreviation or error, "Reciperenter" unclear). 2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts. 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks. 5. Indicated missing words with "..." where necessary. 6. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, I've used HTML

for paragraphs as instructed. However, there are still some unclear parts and potential errors in the text that were not corrected due to the constraints of the task or the unclear context.