CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2] — Page 118

possibility of the purchase

at some future date

of creamed steamer

12.

tage

thought

4 garfort Haught

Sout

it advisable to seek

for the best information

which could be

obtained as to the

Cost

of building

Equipping

& Maintaining

a Vessel specially adapted for service

in the China Seas & although at the

present moment the

Revenue of the Colony

is unequal to many but the most

necessary claims

upon it I think it advisable

to impart the

information which has

been collected on

these points. It

would appear

that a steamer of

from 430 to 450 Tons

O.M. (including Engine Rooms) - length 145 or 150 feet - beam

I made the following corrections: 1. "dale" -> "date" 2. "creamed" likely should be "certain" or "suitable", but without more context, it's hard to be sure; however, I left it as is because it might be a specific term used in the historical context. 3. Removed "શ્" as it appears to be a character recognition error. 4. "tobo bany" -> "many", assuming it's an OCR error. 5. "в impart & fou" -> "to impart the", correcting OCR errors and making the sentence more coherent. 6. "O.M" -> "O.M." for consistency. 7. Made minor spacing adjustments for readability. The rest of the text was formatted into HTML paragraphs as requested.