Majesty's Government might perhaps otherwise have hesitated to
an
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ordinary Magistrate.
report
ein
On the whole then for loathing to the extreme importance of the interests
at
if one:
take no
I think it most expedient to take steps for revising Ordinance
No. 8 till I receive from You an answer to this communication.
A
In regard to the Ordinance conferring power on Council,
Lordship,
Begin with clause 17 of the draft, which provides
for regulating the gambling Houses of the Colony, that a subject which does not
because
as
pres
reported in my despatch No. 183, the Police have made some progress towards suppressing gaming, though information this day received leads me to infer that such progress is not so great as I thought. Its illegality, however, is a dangerous
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hand, and causes always a constant presence of corruption. Such Police vigilance
unduly diverts their attention from
greater crimes. Hence
giang
even
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some species of lottery are
as
attempted to be suppressed, yet not
It is therefore quite possible that the necessity for checking corruption
the Police may compel me to have recourse to the new powers conferred by the Ordinance. Nevertheless, when such a contingency does come, it will be impossible to proceed by any other mode