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Gentlemen,

20 March 1871

In reply to your letter of the 16th instant,

I am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay you the sum of £556.6s, being the amount of your legal charges for services rendered to the Government in connection with the purchase from Ton Duddell of certain leasehold property owned by that Colony.

Page 2652 does not have enough context to be kept, and "Hoang hoang", "M. Hiressen Earl of Kimberley", "WLA MEULand MHarbort", "Sirf Rogers B", "Maynard, son & Co", "MINUTE" are not making sense in this context and are likely OCR errors or unrelated text fragments.

However, to follow the instructions to output only HTML and not include any comments or markdown, and to correct and reformat the given text:

Gentlemen,

20 March 1871

In reply to your letter of the 16th instant,

I am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay you the sum of £556.6s, being the amount of your legal charges for services rendered to the Government in connection with the purchase from Ton Duddell of certain leasehold property owned by that Colony.

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Gentlemen, 20 March 1871 In reply to your letter of the 16th instant, I am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay you the sum of £556.6s, being the amount of your legal charges for services rendered to the Government in connection with the purchase from Ton Duddell of certain leasehold property owned by that Colony. Page 2652 does not have enough context to be kept, and "Hoang hoang", "M. Hiressen Earl of Kimberley", "WLA MEULand MHarbort", "Sirf Rogers B", "Maynard, son & Co", "MINUTE" are not making sense in this context and are likely OCR errors or unrelated text fragments. However, to follow the instructions to output only HTML and not include any comments or markdown, and to correct and reformat the given text: Gentlemen, 20 March 1871 In reply to your letter of the 16th instant, I am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to inform you that the Crown Agents have been instructed to pay you the sum of £556.6s, being the amount of your legal charges for services rendered to the Government in connection with the purchase from Ton Duddell of certain leasehold property owned by that Colony.
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