of Revenue and not of Police - which would be wholly
Her
contrary to the policy of Majesty's Government, or it would produce continual disputes between the farmer
the Revenue who was in-
terested in the multiplication
of Gambling Houses and increase of Gambling,
and the Govern-
ment who desired to restrict
the number of these establishments, and to control their
irregularities, and who would
hold it an advantage
to
diminish their attractions." _
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The Duke of Buckingham & Chandos to Governor Sir R. J. MacDonnell
Hong Kong
No 76
Sir,
Downing Street
10th July 186[?]
I have to acknowledge
the receipt of your Despatch
No 280 of 9th May,
of 9th May, in which you state that the efficiency of the
Police Force is again becoming impaired in consequence of the corruption of members of that Force by the Keepers of
Gambling Houses, and you express