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Machine transcription
for Mr. McChesney
Amirs proclamation
This copy got at Meshed
CS Maclean
30th April
1887
Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting. How this was measured.