Your Grace not being forbidden the
receipt of any
Revenue from the
Licenses for gaming houses, it
cooperation in putting down all
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illegal gaming,
and with it the
existing corruption of the Police,
might
have
been possible to have
made
both ends meet
32. Those houses will
in
a few days
in accordance
with arrangements
completed so far as
to render
it imperative to the Licensees
to forbid it.
I shall thereby be
able to gather experience of a valuable kind from their working. Nevertheless as
I never
engaged
any plan for merely opening gaming
Houses
unless
calculated to
on conditions
ensure
means
to close them
on the
1st of next January, and therefore
the Revenue derivable
thence
though imposed for merely Police
purposes cannot bring
the
collateral relief it might have
to the finances of
afforded
the Colony during next year.
And here I may
33.
explain that in computing Revenue of $100,000 as derivable
from that source during 1868,
I did not thereby
calculate
on the gambling Licenses necessarily
producing
cooperation