RAS-1986 — Page 279

I understand the instructions for OCR proofreading of historical records related to Hong Kong. I will follow the rules provided to correct the text while preserving the original content and format as much as possible.

The rules include:

• Transforming the text into standard Markdown format.
• Correcting spelling errors without adding or removing words.
• Fixing spacing issues, including extra spaces, missing spaces, and hyphenation or line-break artifacts.
• Rejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks.
• Indicating missing words with "...".
• Formatting file references without spaces inside parentheses.
• Preserving page numbering information.
• Reordering newspaper texts if necessary.
• Reconstructing tables.
• Adjusting Chinese writing direction if necessary.

I will output the corrected text in HTML format using <p> for paragraphs and <br> only when necessary.