CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 312

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Connexion as Interpreter has been proposed between interpretation in the Courts and duties of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Under the supervision of so able a Chinese scholar as Dr. Eitel, the standard of interpretation in the courts will doubtless be greatly raised and the duties of Registrar General & Chinese Secretary can be safely entrusted to Mr. Stewart.

Jobgrave that it is proposed in your despatch that Mr. Lockhart should be appointed as first cadet in the Interpretation department of 307 and I think it well to repeat that it is not my intention that cadets should be employed in the work of interpretation. The object for which they should be carefully trained in Chinese is to qualify them for filling the higher offices in the colonial service and discharging the duties appertaining to those offices without the assistance of interpreters.

With this view of the future cadets, I consider that Mr. Lockhart should not be employed in clerical work until he has acquired considerable mastery of the Chinese language...

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I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Suferision" to "supervision", "d'Eitel" to "Dr. Eitel", "chuk" to "cadet", "despatch" kept as is, "buok" to "book", "wold" to "work", "wholes" to "which", "care-" to "carefully", "intention", "view", "qualify theme" to "qualify them", "offices", "discharging", "affetaining" to "appertaining", "interpretas" to "interpreters", "vice" to "view", "considu" to "consider", "emplaged" to "employed", "derical" to "clerical", "worth" to "work", "ac-t" to "acquired", "G" likely a scanning error and removed as it doesn't form a coherent word, "Considerable" to "considerable", "codile" likely a scanning error and changed to "I consider"). 2. Removed or corrected non-English text that doesn't make sense in the context ("девств", "для", "19438"). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks. 5. Indicated missing or unclear words with "...". 6. Applied Markdown formatting was not required as per the final instruction; instead, the output is given in HTML using `

` for paragraphs. 7. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 8. File references and page numbering were not present in the original text except "307" which was kept as it was. "Page 307" was added as it seems to be a page numbering information.

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Connexion as Interpreter has been proposed between interpretation in the Courts and duties of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Under the supervision of so able a Chinese scholar as Dr. Eitel, the standard of interpretation in the courts will doubtless be greatly raised and the duties of Registrar General & Chinese Secretary can be safely entrusted to Mr. Stewart. Jobgrave that it is proposed in your despatch that Mr. Lockhart should be appointed as first cadet in the Interpretation department of 307 and I think it well to repeat that it is not my intention that cadets should be employed in the work of interpretation. The object for which they should be carefully trained in Chinese is to qualify them for filling the higher offices in the colonial service and discharging the duties appertaining to those offices without the assistance of interpreters. With this view of the future cadets, I consider that Mr. Lockhart should not be employed in clerical work until he has acquired considerable mastery of the Chinese language... Page 307 I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Suferision" to "supervision", "d'Eitel" to "Dr. Eitel", "chuk" to "cadet", "despatch" kept as is, "buok" to "book", "wold" to "work", "wholes" to "which", "care-" to "carefully", "intention", "view", "qualify theme" to "qualify them", "offices", "discharging", "affetaining" to "appertaining", "interpretas" to "interpreters", "vice" to "view", "considu" to "consider", "emplaged" to "employed", "derical" to "clerical", "worth" to "work", "ac-t" to "acquired", "G" likely a scanning error and removed as it doesn't form a coherent word, "Considerable" to "considerable", "codile" likely a scanning error and changed to "I consider"). 2. Removed or corrected non-English text that doesn't make sense in the context ("девств", "для", "19438"). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks. 5. Indicated missing or unclear words with "...". 6. Applied Markdown formatting was not required as per the final instruction; instead, the output is given in HTML using `` for paragraphs. 7. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 8. File references and page numbering were not present in the original text except "307" which was kept as it was. "Page 307" was added as it seems to be a page numbering information.
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