CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12] — Page 199

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Accounts have been set forth in a memorial to your Excellency which we beg that Your Excellency will graciously deign to render us assistance.

Your Excellency, In the 25th and 24th year of Kwangtung (not "23" as it seems to be a typo or OCR error, and "7. Jak" is interpreted as "Kwangtung"), Lai Lai, the late prat Commander and Hg - Wang, the late second in command of the said steamer "Dangte" were commissioned to Hong Kong; they had the presumption to stand security for one Un Tak Haw in the purchase of a small steamer, and secretly contracted a loan with Messrs. Landstein & Co. for $62,000 for buying the steamer.

The Manager of that firm has now sent us a letter and demanded the repayment of this loan. Such misconduct on their part can never be overlooked before the law.

Fearing that there may be something more left undiscovered in their conduct, we prayed that the Sovereign might deprive them of their rank and hand them to the Board to have their conduct enquired into. But at that time the said Un Lak Haen was still in Hong Kong and had not returned, and on enquiry from the said Lai Lai and Hg Bang about the affair, they concealed the fact.

It is necessary, therefore, to have further inquiry conducted. Hitherto, whenever our...

Here is the revised output in HTML format as requested, with corrections made according to the given rules: 1. Corrected "bou" to "been", "beg" is kept as is but "that Your" is a bit ambiguous, yet kept. 2. "Jak" is interpreted as "Kwangtung" which is a historical region, now known as Guangdong. 3. Removed the non-English character "کرو" as it seems to be an OCR error. 4. "& be Messr:" is corrected to "Messrs." which is a common abbreviation for "Misters". 5. "bensing Driving" is likely an OCR error and is interpreted as "buying the steamer". 6. "Sovereign to deprive =" is corrected to "Sovereign might deprive them". 7. "bler" is removed as it seems to be a typo or an incomplete word. 8. "into." is interpreted as "conduct enquired into". 9. Minor spacing and punctuation corrections made. The output is formatted using HTML paragraphs (

) as per the instructions.

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Accounts have been set forth in a memorial to your Excellency which we beg that Your Excellency will graciously deign to render us assistance. Your Excellency, In the 25th and 24th year of Kwangtung (not "23" as it seems to be a typo or OCR error, and "7. Jak" is interpreted as "Kwangtung"), Lai Lai, the late prat Commander and Hg - Wang, the late second in command of the said steamer "Dangte" were commissioned to Hong Kong; they had the presumption to stand security for one Un Tak Haw in the purchase of a small steamer, and secretly contracted a loan with Messrs. Landstein & Co. for $62,000 for buying the steamer. The Manager of that firm has now sent us a letter and demanded the repayment of this loan. Such misconduct on their part can never be overlooked before the law. Fearing that there may be something more left undiscovered in their conduct, we prayed that the Sovereign might deprive them of their rank and hand them to the Board to have their conduct enquired into. But at that time the said Un Lak Haen was still in Hong Kong and had not returned, and on enquiry from the said Lai Lai and Hg Bang about the affair, they concealed the fact. It is necessary, therefore, to have further inquiry conducted. Hitherto, whenever our... Here is the revised output in HTML format as requested, with corrections made according to the given rules: 1. Corrected "bou" to "been", "beg" is kept as is but "that Your" is a bit ambiguous, yet kept. 2. "Jak" is interpreted as "Kwangtung" which is a historical region, now known as Guangdong. 3. Removed the non-English character "کرو" as it seems to be an OCR error. 4. "& be Messr:" is corrected to "Messrs." which is a common abbreviation for "Misters". 5. "bensing Driving" is likely an OCR error and is interpreted as "buying the steamer". 6. "Sovereign to deprive =" is corrected to "Sovereign might deprive them". 7. "bler" is removed as it seems to be a typo or an incomplete word. 8. "into." is interpreted as "conduct enquired into". 9. Minor spacing and punctuation corrections made. The output is formatted using HTML paragraphs () as per the instructions.
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