requirements of the 34th measure.
I have received offers exceeding $365,000 per annum, and have at last made arrangements with very respectable parties, whom I think likely to aid the Government, for an amount commencing at the rate of $200,000, my object being to remove all doubt and to begin at a rate beyond sufficient to make the holders of licenses exert themselves to put those down.
268 var in worthing order, till, towards the close of 1868, they might possibly approach a rate little more than $30,000 per annum.
By commencing, however, at a much higher figure the total receipts for the year would probably not be less than $100,000, and might probably much exceed that amount.
35th. It does not seem to myself this policy obnoxious to the charge of adopting a measure for the sake of Revenue. To refuse $365,000, and hope at the close of ... all illegal gambling. As it is much easier to lower than to raise the fees determined in the uncertainty, which question, to besets the commencement at a figure sufficiently high. I ... that I could gradually diminish the Monthly fees, when the Machinery in 1868 to carry out the Police objects of the Scheme with receipts at the annual rate of only $50,000 might keep the Government free from all imputations of unworthy motives, and though personally...