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in regard to public houses - But- it would I think be difficult to argue that it would be more wrong in principle to tolerate gambling and by means licenses make it pay the cost highly useful in its operation. that it would be more that it is practically
They both say impossible to keep a community, of Chinamen from indulging in of of regulating itself, than to legalize it without deriving any income that court.
then darling vice. That the attempts made to do so have been complete failures and have no other practical effect than to corrupt & destroy the efficiency of the police which induces the Home Sort to appoint to measures seemingly
The alternative might be suggested of objectionable when carried abandoning the attempt & simply the local legislatures of Colonies possessing representative institutions may imposing regulations as it here done