17.
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716.
in the preservation of order. The keeper of the morgnised house would himself put down the obscure, poortopf the .
topf the devotees
of
the vice, at present either
inaccessible to our Police of
affording numberless modes of
Ica
the
ape when such pesits are made, he would not fear, men he has hither to paid, such as the organized puffian or the corrupt Police, the thing
Id have to gamble
bes daylight and at the risk of
would
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mediate detection or leave
this Colony for this purpose) and by degrees that med which
f
like many other forbidden pleasures is the mon sought after because
difficulty. and excitement accompanpits
some
enjoyment, would very much diminish and many a man)
would abstain
to
from gambling who now does it in private but who would then be compelled
how himself publicly) in the licensed gambling house). I do not presume to argue the question as an English law pr or actigen I do so as a denizen of Hongkong having.
now
chudied the habits and defects of the people for some years