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from the change because that should not
ded: as
for a moment be regarded:
a....
motive for
introducing it. Nevertheless it is clear that
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the
greater
ihe
paid by the Chinese
the
greater would be the security held by
the Colony for ensuring the only legitimate
& fruits of the
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systems, and on that ground
alone it would be impolitic and useless, to
endeavour to establish the system without
exacting such security for its efficient working
10.
Nevertheless it may be as well
for Your Grace to know that a sum
if probably exceeding $900,000 per
annum
could easily
be derived from
that
source, the Colony
then be enabled to resume
its Military
contribution, and also to dispense with
the Stamp Act - results of the highest
importance, although only collaterally, and,
I may say,
even accidentally springing
entirely
from a policy adopted for reasons unconnected with considerations of Revenue.
11.
If Her Majesty's Government can
devise any simpler scheme for releasing the Police from the fruitless and irksome duties
now cast on them by the existing law, I
shall devote myself to giving it a trial,
and
am
far from presuming to say
I have exhausted all available
means
for suppressing gaming merely because I have exhausted all suggested to myself. I would, however, respectfully suggest that the
present state of things is evidently
unsatisfactory, and that consequently
some...