b.
y
of getting
drunk and were
the soldiers in this colony confined to their own
resources this evil would be
comparatively rare
Here
the Soldier drinks at the
expense of the sailor and
while ever we
a
have such
transitory
and rowdy seafaring population as is generally to be found in the Colony I fear that all legislation intended to
check drunkenness would be thrown
away.
Still I think that as no harm could result
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from the reduction of the number of Grog shops and from the making it illegal
to sell liquor to Soldiers and some good might follow therefrom both to soldiers and sailors, Sir Hope Grant's first suggestion is worthy of careful
With Sir Hope Grant's second
agree.
consideration.
suggestion I cannot at all
It would be contrary to all rule precedent and principle to put any house licensed by the Municipal laws of the Colony under Military Control or surveillance.