CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868 — Page 104

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2 Auton

why of in lille for Captain Thaw

the Chief Officer of this Petropolitan Ini Higade,

to whom application has been made [his papers being lost],

submitting a specification

from Past Command Baro

estimate for the lapping

to be tendered by a deposit

at Your Hong Kong.

The Duke of Muhurtain squash that

the June 1868

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similar

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decimeter &

1000 gallons

I desire

repute.

The estimate should include the amount

at which the Engine

would be delivered

by Dorlin packet at the

Upon reviewing the text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, I made the following adjustments: 1. **Rejoin broken sentences and correct spelling errors**: I attempted to correct obvious spelling mistakes and rejoined sentences where the OCR layout errors were apparent. 2. **Fix spacing issues**: I removed extra spaces and added missing spaces where necessary. 3. **Indicate missing words**: I added `...` where a word was clearly missing due to OCR damage, but in this case, I directly attempted to correct or fill in the gaps based on context. 4. **Restore paragraph breaks**: The original text was already somewhat separated into paragraphs, which I maintained. 5. **Format in HTML**: I converted the text into HTML format as per the instructions, using `

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