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On the first head, which has not hitherto been considered as demanding Police interference, although in one or two special instances, proceedings have been instituted against the issuers of lottery tickets, it is only necessary to state that though daily indulged in by men, women, and children, it possesses none of the dangerous excitement of fan gaming; and being but the cool hazard of a few cash, leads to but a comparatively small amount of mischief. The issuing of the Tickets is carried on in respectable shops, with no attempt at concealment and might be at any time suppressed if it was the desire of Government to do so. The knowledge that it is an offence operates decidedly against any injurious excess.
In the second head, Gaming houses are open to the public, instruments and means of gaming such as dice, Cards, and the peculiar Chinese game of "Fan Tan" (counting out an uncertain number of Cash into lots of from one, two, three, four) indicating the winner; the gamester who stakes on the correct number wins.