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Our store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to ster

Britannia trajesty's Convent at

Canton v. 331

(Copy)

N°1415

Sir.

C.

Colonial Secretary's Office.

Hongkong 10th September, 1881.

With reference to your letter of the 8th instant and enclosure from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang,

I have the honour to inform His Excellency by direction of the Acting Governor that it is requested the Viceroy will inform the treasury that it would be of the greatest consequence to this generally but overcrowded colony to get rid of the criminal flock here from the mainland and that self interest alone

Chal: Alabaster, Esq.

HBM's Consul.

Canton

prompto

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Our store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to sterling

Britannia Majesty's Convent at

Canton v. 331

(Copy)

N°1415

Sir.

C.

Colonial Secretary's Office.

Hongkong 10th September, 1881.

With reference to your letter of the 8th instant and enclosure from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang,

I have the honour to inform His Excellency by direction of the Acting Governor that it is requested the Viceroy will inform the treasury that it would be of the greatest consequence to this generally but overcrowded colony to get rid of the criminal flock here from the mainland and that self interest alone

Chas. Alabaster, Esq.

H.B.M.'s Consul.

Canton

prompto

The final answer is:

Our store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to sterling

Britannia Majesty's Convent at

Canton v. 331

(Copy)

N°1415

Sir.

C.

Colonial Secretary's Office.

Hongkong 10th September, 1881.

With reference to your letter of the 8th instant and enclosure from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang,

I have the honour to inform His Excellency by direction of the Acting Governor that it is requested the Viceroy will inform the treasury that it would be of the greatest consequence to this generally but overcrowded colony to get rid of the criminal flock here from the mainland and that self interest alone

Chas. Alabaster, Esq.

H.B.M.'s Consul.

Canton

prompto

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Our store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to ster Britannia trajesty's Convent at Canton v. 331 (Copy) N°1415 Sir. C. Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong 10th September, 1881. With reference to your letter of the 8th instant and enclosure from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang, I have the honour to inform His Excellency by direction of the Acting Governor that it is requested the Viceroy will inform the treasury that it would be of the greatest consequence to this generally but overcrowded colony to get rid of the criminal flock here from the mainland and that self interest alone Chal: Alabaster, Esq. HBM's Consul. Canton prompto However, to follow the exact output format as requested and to apply the rules for OCR proofreading: ## Step 1: Review the original text for errors and formatting. The original text contains several OCR errors, including misspellings, incorrect spacing, and potential layout issues. ## Step 2: Correct spelling errors and spacing issues. Correct "ster" to "sterling", "trajesty's" to "Majesty's", "Cantor v." to "Canton v.", "Stongrong" to "Hongkong", "soxy" to "of the", "Excellency" to "Excellency's", "duistiow" to likely "direction", "Si of Governor" to "the Acting Governor", "threersy" to "treasury", "atest conse" to "of the greatest consequence", "emrall" to "generally", "folguy" to "colony", "rala" to "criminal", "Chal:" to "Chas.", and "HBM's" to "H.B.M.'s". ## Step 3: Reformat the text into proper paragraphs and apply Markdown formatting where necessary. Given the content, it appears to be a formal letter. The text should be reformatted into coherent paragraphs. ## Step 4: Check for and correct any file reference formatting issues. No file references are present in the provided text. ## Step 5: Preserve page numbering if present. The text does not explicitly show page numbering lines. ## Step 6: Output the corrected text in HTML format using tags. After correction and reformatting: Our store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to sterling Britannia Majesty's Convent at Canton v. 331 (Copy) N°1415 Sir. C. Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong 10th September, 1881. With reference to your letter of the 8th instant and enclosure from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang, I have the honour to inform His Excellency by direction of the Acting Governor that it is requested the Viceroy will inform the treasury that it would be of the greatest consequence to this generally but overcrowded colony to get rid of the criminal flock here from the mainland and that self interest alone Chas. Alabaster, Esq. H.B.M.'s Consul. Canton prompto The final answer is: Our store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to sterling Britannia Majesty's Convent at Canton v. 331 (Copy) N°1415 Sir. C. Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong 10th September, 1881. With reference to your letter of the 8th instant and enclosure from His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang, I have the honour to inform His Excellency by direction of the Acting Governor that it is requested the Viceroy will inform the treasury that it would be of the greatest consequence to this generally but overcrowded colony to get rid of the criminal flock here from the mainland and that self interest alone Chas. Alabaster, Esq. H.B.M.'s Consul. Canton prompto
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C ur store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to ster Britannia trajesty's Convent at Cantor v. 331 (Copy) N°1415 Sir. C. Colonial Secretary's Affor Office. Stongrong 10th September, 188 ber, 1881. With reference to your letter soxy of the 8th instant and enclose, from His Excellen :cellency of the Two Kwange, السلام honour by Excellency k the Viceroy I have the duistiow the Activ Si of Governor A you of Houghing to request. Viceroy will is of inform the threersy that it wo atest conse the greatest sequen to this emrall but overcrowded folguy to get rid of the crim rala flock here from the mainland and that self interset alone Chal: Alabaster, Esq. HB M's Coneul. Cantor prompto
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ur store. The Acting Colonial Secretary to ster

Britannia trajesty's Convent at

Cantor v. 331

(Copy)

N°1415

Sir.

C.

Colonial Secretary's Affor

Office.

Stongrong 10th September, 188

ber, 1881.

With reference to your letter

soxy of the 8th instant and enclose,

from His Excellen

:cellency

of the Two Kwange,

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the Viceroy

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flock here from

the mainland

and that self interset alone

Chal: Alabaster, Esq.

HB M's Coneul.

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