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doubt sufficient to make the holders of those licenses avert producing a regular monthly receipt between $8,000 and $9,000. On the contrary, I freely confess that, as a new experiment, I determined to put down all illegal gambling.
As it is much easier to lower than to raise fees, I found it entirely at a loss to ascertain what amount would suffice to meet the legitimate requirements of the Police. 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 $260,000, my object being to begin at a figure sufficiently high to commence the question, to nevertheless hoped that I could gradually diminish the monthly fees when the machinery was in working order, till, towards the close of 1868, they might possibly approach a rate little more than $50,000 per annum.
By commencing however at such a much