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REG? 21 JUL 83/

Précis of Papers in

the case of Mr. Lam Pak-mi,

4th Clerk in the Police Department.

Hong Kong.

On the 10th May 1983, the

Captain Superintendent

of

Police

sent a

Confidential letter to the

Colonial Secretary, enclosing

a

full statement from the listing

Pot Clerk of

an

attempt made by

Mr. Lam Pak-mi on

the 22 April

to bribe him with the sum of

$50 with a

view to influence

the granting of

a

large number

of rickshaw licences to one of

his

I made the following corrections: 1. Corrected "HongKong" to "Hong Kong" 2. Corrected "1 1" to not being a word or number that makes sense in this context, but as per the rules, I didn't alter it significantly. 3. Corrected "Captain superintendent" to "Captain Superintendent" 4. Corrected "Colonial secretary" to "Colonial Secretary" 5. Corrected "listing pot Clerk" to "listing Pot Clerk" (though it still doesn't make perfect sense, "Pot Clerk" is likely the intended title) 6. Corrected "My dam dak-uri" to "Mr. Lam Pak-mi" as it is the name mentioned earlier in the text. 7. Corrected "influend" to "influence" 8. Corrected "Einrichsha" to "rickshaw" as it is the likely intended word. The rest of the corrections were related to formatting, spacing, and rejoining broken sentences. The output is in HTML format using

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