528
from the fact
that there would be
competition if I was to
put up for sale licenses for keeping gambling houses - which would then be orderly instead of disorderly, and the Keepers of which would themselves be the best Police the
Government could employ - as is
proved
at Macao-
and
for all
this direct benefit to the Police
its means
and to the Colony by increasing
for detecting and suppressing Crime I could obtain nearly $200,000 annually - just as at present the Colony receives nearly $80,000 for granting a monopoly in opium.
Under Section XVII the
Governor in Council would have power
to control under certain limitations the practice of gambling as those limitations might consist in the issue of licenses it is clear that under that Section the Governor in Council might adopt a system hitherto
discountenanced by Her Majesty's
Government and derive a
revenue from the alteration.
Altogether
6.
It is perfectly
and
largely
well understood
and
they all
by the members
of Council that such is the case advocating such change of system, both as a
Police and a
Revenue Measure, but I may simply say