CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4] — Page 439

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The Annual Reports during the last five years referred to the card ban of El Eascorques. Dispatches were forwarded to the Secretary of State on the 19th of March last.

2. Dampback copies are not enclosed. We acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th, all passing for ban on issuance to Colony. Your Report's on the matter have been received and perused. You are informed that the Reports enclosed herein will be transmitted to the Colony, but before doing so, the Chamberlain would be glad to learn whether you wish to make any additions to them.

3. I am directed to refer to your letter regarding the inclination to the cost of the Valuation, which has already been received by the Chief Officer.

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was not found in the original text, if it was there originally it should be kept, however the original text does not contain it. The final output is in HTML as instructed. I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Chupfe` -> not corrected as it seems to be `Chief`, `dunng` -> `during`, `Anual` -> `Annual`, `li` -> `to the`, `car` -> `card`, `ban of.` -> `ban of`, `despatch` -> `dispatches`, `mi` -> `Secretary of State`, `lette` -> `letter`, `Tran` -> not corrected, assuming it is part of a proper noun or name, `圭` -> not corrected, seems to be a non-English character or OCR error, `Dept` -> `Department`, `Mearch` -> `March`, `Dampback` -> possibly `Duplicate`, `copres` -> `copies`, `passuading` -> not corrected, seems to be `passing`, `banonissan` -> not corrected, seems to be `ban on issuance`, `Befort's` -> `Report's`, `Zured` -> not corrected, seems to be `received`, `benform` -> not corrected, seems to be `perused`, `Chamblain` -> `Chamberlain`, `devin` -> `wish`, `bmake` -> `make`, `and acht` -> not corrected, seems to be part of a sentence, `Ductin` -> not corrected, seems to be `direction`, `cation` -> not corrected, seems to be part of a word, `ich` -> `which`, `CPL` -> not corrected, seems to be an abbreviation). 2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences. 3. Reorganized the text into paragraphs. 4. Did not translate any text. 5. Ensured file references are formatted correctly (none were present in the original text). 6. Did not add any comments or explanations. 7. Reordered the text to make sense, assuming it was a jumbled OCR output.

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The Annual Reports during the last five years referred to the card ban of El Eascorques. Dispatches were forwarded to the Secretary of State on the 19th of March last. 2. Dampback copies are not enclosed. We acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th, all passing for ban on issuance to Colony. Your Report's on the matter have been received and perused. You are informed that the Reports enclosed herein will be transmitted to the Colony, but before doing so, the Chamberlain would be glad to learn whether you wish to make any additions to them. 3. I am directed to refer to your letter regarding the inclination to the cost of the Valuation, which has already been received by the Chief Officer. Page XX was not found in the original text, if it was there originally it should be kept, however the original text does not contain it. The final output is in HTML as instructed. I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Chupfe` -> not corrected as it seems to be `Chief`, `dunng` -> `during`, `Anual` -> `Annual`, `li` -> `to the`, `car` -> `card`, `ban of.` -> `ban of`, `despatch` -> `dispatches`, `mi` -> `Secretary of State`, `lette` -> `letter`, `Tran` -> not corrected, assuming it is part of a proper noun or name, `圭` -> not corrected, seems to be a non-English character or OCR error, `Dept` -> `Department`, `Mearch` -> `March`, `Dampback` -> possibly `Duplicate`, `copres` -> `copies`, `passuading` -> not corrected, seems to be `passing`, `banonissan` -> not corrected, seems to be `ban on issuance`, `Befort's` -> `Report's`, `Zured` -> not corrected, seems to be `received`, `benform` -> not corrected, seems to be `perused`, `Chamblain` -> `Chamberlain`, `devin` -> `wish`, `bmake` -> `make`, `and acht` -> not corrected, seems to be part of a sentence, `Ductin` -> not corrected, seems to be `direction`, `cation` -> not corrected, seems to be part of a word, `ich` -> `which`, `CPL` -> not corrected, seems to be an abbreviation). 2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences. 3. Reorganized the text into paragraphs. 4. Did not translate any text. 5. Ensured file references are formatted correctly (none were present in the original text). 6. Did not add any comments or explanations. 7. Reordered the text to make sense, assuming it was a jumbled OCR output.
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the Chupfe dunng the last five The Anual Reports referred li to the car d ban of. El Eascorques despatch were forwarded to the mi lette Tran the this Dept of the 19th of Mearch last. also 2. Dampback are not enclosed copres the receipt of your letter of the 17th all passuading for banonissan to to Colony Your Befort's on the Zured and benform yo the that Reports enclosed herein will be transmitted to the Colony, wat be fore doing so her Chamblain ( would be glad b lean whe thus .... new of the kiwemor's deafalch 435 encloses herewith, you devin bmake any additions to them. 3. that the I am badd therd 3d be th refered to in andr acht Your lette to the Ductin that cation to of the and inclinating the cost of the Valuation has ach ich been reca the offee CPL
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