sanctioned because Your Majesty's Government are at all indifferent to the existence of gambling in the Colony, but on the contrary because, having repeatedly had the extreme mischief and demoralization produced by this cause to the native community brought under their notice, and having found the local Authorities under the present system powerless to cope with the evil, they are willing to sanction the means which have been indicated to control it.
330 on the understanding, therefore, that the Ordinance as it stands remains subject to disallowance and that the 15th Clause will be repealed, for the reasons which I have stated, I have to authorise you to bring into operation the remainder of the Ordinance No. ... of 1866.
I do not, however, authorise you to farm out the Revenue arising from this licensing of Gambling Houses. Such a system must either end in making the issue and withdrawal of Licenses a matter ...