The information called for was supplies in December 1826; - but it does not appear that any contrary actuarial decision was come to by the Court.
From a President's Minute dated 25th August 1888, I gather that, while abolished in Penang, the system was still in force in both Malacca and Singapore. But the papers give no explanation of this anomaly.
The Grand Jury in Singapore, on 18th February 1829, followed the example of their brethren 20 years before in Penang and remonstrated against the Licensed House at that station, and in the following month the Recorder, with the same view, addressed the Grand Jury at Malacca.
Before this date, in Singapore, the subject appears to have attracted some attention, for there is a body of Regulations dated 1st May 1823, entirely prohibitory of all gambling, and bearing the signature of Sir Stamford Raffles.
Mr. Crawfurd, Resident, wrote forcibly to the Government of India against these Regulations on 15th July 1833, and on 18th September 1833 reported to the Bengal Authorities that he had been compelled, on his own responsibility, to stop the Licensing System temporarily as an alternative.
The year 1833, however, as shown above, is the latest date found in these papers, and in Governor Blundell's letter of 21st July last, transmitting the documents, it is stated that the subject...
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