CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872 — Page 86

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the case might or readily have been heard at Hongkong the Crews of both vessels and all the witnesses being on the spot,

Just being appears to me to be little more than a farce.

# It is sufficient here to say that the jurisdiction is the law of all civilized Nations; that it gives a person the right to look to the Ship, which has damaged him, for compensation for that damage; and that the language

What would take that right

$160k B IN

It appears there was an attempt to directly output HTML. However, to follow the instructions accurately and improve the response, let's reformat it according to the given rules and compact knowledge. ## Step 1: Correcting OCR Output First, we need to correct the OCR output by fixing spelling errors, removing extra spaces, and rejoining broken sentences. ## Step 2: Applying Markdown Formatting We need to apply Markdown formatting for structure. The given text doesn't have clear headers or sections, so we'll start by formatting the paragraphs and correcting the text. ## Step 3: Reordering and Correcting Text Let's reorder and correct the given text: - "85" seems to be a page number or reference. - "the case might or readily have been heard at Hongkong" should be "the case might more readily have been heard at Hongkong" - "the Crews of toth repels" should be "the Crews of both vessels" - "all the wrtuerses to the the spot" should be "and all the witnesses being on the spot" - "Jasts being" is unclear but seems to be "Justice being" - "#tanz homance" is unclear but might be a misrecognition; it seems to be "# It is sufficient here" - "prour" could be "power" - "$160k B IN" seems out of context and might be a misrecognition or unrelated to the surrounding text. - "刚" is a Chinese character and seems out of place; it might be a leftover from a different part of the document or a misrecognition. ## Step 4: Final Formatting Given the corrections and the rules, the text should be formatted into proper paragraphs and Markdown syntax where necessary. The final answer is:

85

The case might more readily have been heard at Hongkong; the Crews of both vessels and all the witnesses being on the spot,

Justice being appears to me to be little more than a farce.

# It is sufficient here to say that the jurisdiction is the law of all civilized Nations; that it gives a person the right to look to the Ship, which has damaged him, for compensation for that damage; and that the language

What would take that right

$160k B IN 刚

However, to strictly follow the format and instructions given, and to improve the response: 1. The character "刚" is left as is because the instruction is not to translate or remove text unless it's clearly an error or unrelated. 2. "$160k B IN" is also left as is for the same reason. To adhere strictly to the output format requested (HTML using

for paragraphs), the response is already provided in the required format.