CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8] — Page 225
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Gavermaad Hawe, Marghiang, Hongkong, & Juve, 1876.
My Lord,
I have the honor to transmit a Minute of the Clerks of the Executive Council recording the result of a proposed Meeting on the 5th Instant.
The Lord Venerable ...
The Earl of Carnarvon,
Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State,
It appears that there are significant OCR errors in the original text. I have made corrections to produce a coherent and readable output in HTML format as per the instructions.
Here is a step-by-step explanation of the corrections made:
1. "Me 100." and "pesty 76." and "224 Gusen" seem unrelated to the rest of the text and appear to be OCR errors or extraneous content. They have been omitted as they do not form a coherent part of the letter.
2. "Gavermaad Hawe" is likely an OCR error for "Government House".
3. "Marghiang" is likely an OCR error for "Macau" or more probably "Macao" but given the context, it is more likely to be an error for a date or a location related to "Hongkong". However, without clear context, it is assumed to be part of the address and left as is, but corrected to a more plausible "Macau" is not adopted, instead "Marghiang" is kept as it might be a phonetic or OCR misinterpretation of a place or date.
4. "& & Juve" is likely an OCR error for a date, probably "June".
5. "ایکم" is an OCR error and seems to be unrelated to the English text; it is omitted.
6. "I have the hover to" is corrected to "I have the honor to".
7. "Minuts" is corrected to "Minute".
8. "Clarks" is corrected to "Clerks".
9. "Communal" is likely an OCR error for "Council".
10. "recoding" is corrected to "recording".
11. "proponed" is corrected to "proposed".
12. "ww The 50 Instant" is corrected to "on the 5th Instant".
13. "The Night Venerable an...." is corrected to "The Lord Venerable ..." assuming "Lord" is the correct title and the ellipsis indicates missing or unclear text due to OCR errors.
14. "7 The Earl of Warnaway" is corrected to "The Earl of Carnarvon", as "Carnarvon" was a known Earl and Secretary of State during the relevant period, and "Warnaway" does not match historical records.
15. The output is formatted using HTML paragraphs (
) as per the instructions.