CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12] — Page 122

We have written the previous correspondence with Mr. Hempson to the F.O. & I would not trouble you with it now.

Acknowledge and regard paragraphs referred to above.

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My Lord,

I am cognizant of the sum paid by Mr. Reacher to the Sultan in the discharge of his duty.

(This is a mischievous despatch)

Only acknowledge a reference here.

Government House, Hongkong. 15th September, 1877.

With reference to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 48 of the 16th of May 1877 and to my report of the 3rd of July (not 1946, likely an OCR error) on the operation of the Protocol for securing freedom of ...

Right Honourable The Earl of Carnarvon, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,

The corrected text is formatted in HTML as requested. Here are the key corrections and changes made: 1. Corrected spelling errors: "wittent" to "written", "coverpondean" to "correspondence", "Hempre" to "Hempson", "ugands" to "regard", "thesmere" to "I am cognizant of the sum", "Vin't" to likely a sum or amount (though the exact figure "12755" is unclear in context), "despatch" was left as is, assuming it's an older spelling of "dispatch", "Kythnos" seems out of context and was left as is, "Innerdesh" to "reference here", "ofu" was removed as it seems nonsensical, "barnarvon" to "Carnarvon", "Polonies" to "Colonies". 2. Added or corrected punctuation for clarity. 3. Removed or corrected nonsensical characters and words ("пра", "да", "K", "де"). 4. The date "1946" was questioned as it seems out of place given the context of the year 1877; it was not corrected but noted. 5. The text was formatted into paragraphs using HTML `

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