Firms exceeding $292, excording $365,000 have at last made arrangements with very respectable parties, whom I think likely to aid the Government, for commencing Art. amount at the rate of $260,000 per annum - And at a rate beyond all doubt sufficient to make the holders of those licenses exert themselves to put down all illegal gambling. As it is much easier to lower than to raise the fees I determined, in the uncertainty which beset the question, to commence at a figure sufficiently high, but I nevertheless hoped that I could gradually diminish the
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