called & mules 6.7. d. Chinial Regulations p. 83, cautioning against the undertaking of Extensions made without attention to the Set 1 Stat hone the Estimates are submitted to the legal Council. It seems not unlikely to disregard them. Hem.
a year
2. Fis. J. Dowry with four £1000
more
for himself, as I expect
he would, & cannot blame him for doing.
under the present arrangement he is working without pay as far as the Colony is concerned. But if this happens, it will pretty officially undo
the work of reduction accomplished with so much pains by the Duke of Newcastle
& Mr Peel.
3.
Increase of £200 a year to the harbour master. I think
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not unreasonable, but it will scarcely
be convenient to accede to it until the whole of Sir J. Bowring's scheme
has been considered together.
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4. He wants to raise money by licensing gambling
revenue
Houses: and
says
the present
Gambling houses, being unlicensed, are beyond control, and are nurseries of
Crime. All this has been urged, time & again, in favour of licensing gambling houses in civilized countries, and yet civilized countries have come one after another to the determination not to license them, regarding this as the less evil of the two: and
Low the disgrace only of one or
are