the Executive might deem
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The great necessary obstacle to carrying this very important reform, which was not attempted till the most strenuous efforts had failed to close the haunts of illegal gambling and their confederates, was from inability to discover any adequate stimulus to good conduct and loyal observance of the Government rules by Licensees of such houses so powerful as payment of fees sufficiently large to render forfeiture of their Licenses a heavy penalty, before expenditure incurred. To re-couping Myself especially, and to Her Majesty's Government the receipt of any Revenue from Gambling Licenses is most distasteful. It likewise gives motives, which have had whatever influence they may have had in shaping the policy of the Executive because such Revenue is really nothing but the accidental result of a legitimate effort to discharge one of the most evident duties of Government by suppressing haunts of vice and crime dangerous to society from their secret and illegal nature, the most fertile and dangerous source of demoralization of the force entrusted with the protection of life and property.
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My despatch No. 381 of this month will have apprized Your Grace of the great success of the experiment as to the principal object aimed at in suppressing