CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3] — Page 399

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Several of the Major General Commanding.

I have …

(Signed) J. M. Sorell

Lieut. Col. & CRE

Royal Engineers Office

Hougong 26th May 1884.

396

With reference to your letters of today's date relative to the perambulation of the War Department Boundaries at Stoughton; I have the honor to report that the perambulation for the year 1885 took place on the 20th April of that year, and was made by Lieut. Williams R. E. and myself in the usual manner, as follows :- The positions of the whole of the boundary stones…

Lieut. Col. Lovell CB.

Commanding Royal Engineer

Stongtong

Page 396

I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Stuoral` to `General`, `heims` to `letters`, `dieit.` to `Lieut.`, `eut. Col.` to `Lieut. Col.`, `CB3.` to `CB.`, `Houghing` to `Hougong`, `Stoughtong` to `Stoughton`, `StongRing` to `Stongtong`, `1815` to `1885` as it seems to be a typo given the context of the letter dated 1884). 2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences. 3. Added `…` to indicate missing words due to OCR damage. 4. Reformatted the text into proper paragraphs. 5. Corrected minor formatting issues to adhere to the given rules. 6. Removed the non-English text as it seemed out of context and not relevant to the rest of the document. 7. Preserved original page numbering format by leaving "396" as is, assuming it represents a page number.

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Several of the Major General Commanding. I have (Signed) J. M. Sorell Lieut. Col. & CRE Royal Engineers Office Hougong 26th May 1884. 396 With reference to your letters of today's date relative to the perambulation of the War Department Boundaries at Stoughton; I have the honor to report that the perambulation for the year 1885 took place on the 20th April of that year, and was made by Lieut. Williams R. E. and myself in the usual manner, as follows :- The positions of the whole of the boundary stones… Lieut. Col. Lovell CB. Commanding Royal Engineer Stongtong Page 396 I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Stuoral` to `General`, `heims` to `letters`, `dieit.` to `Lieut.`, `eut. Col.` to `Lieut. Col.`, `CB3.` to `CB.`, `Houghing` to `Hougong`, `Stoughtong` to `Stoughton`, `StongRing` to `Stongtong`, `1815` to `1885` as it seems to be a typo given the context of the letter dated 1884). 2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences. 3. Added `…` to indicate missing words due to OCR damage. 4. Reformatted the text into proper paragraphs. 5. Corrected minor formatting issues to adhere to the given rules. 6. Removed the non-English text as it seemed out of context and not relevant to the rest of the document. 7. Preserved original page numbering format by leaving "396" as is, assuming it represents a page number.
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Several of the Major Stuoral Commanding. I have re. (Signed) J. M. Sorell Liest. Col. & CRE میرے Royal Engineers Office Houghing 26th May 1884. 396 With reference to your heims of today's date relative to the perambulation of the War Department Boundaries at Stoughtong ; I have the honor to report that the perambulation for the year 1815 took place on the 20th April of that year, and was made by dieit. Williams R. E. and myself. in the usual manner, as follows :- The positions of the whole of the boundar eut. Col. Lovell CB3. Commanding Royal Engineer StongRing Stones
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Several

of the Major Stuoral Commanding.

I have re.

(Signed) J. M. Sorell

Liest. Col. & CRE

میرے

Royal Engineers Office Houghing 26th May 1884.

396

With

reference to your heims of today's date relative to the perambulation of the War Department Boundaries at Stoughtong ; I have the honor to report that the perambulation for the year 1815 took place on the 20th April of that year,

and was made by dieit. Williams R. E. and myself.

in the

usual manner, as follows :- The

positions of the whole of the boundar

eut. Col. Lovell CB3.

Commanding Royal Engineer

StongRing

Stones

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