2.
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in which some misapprehension appears
to Mevail
as
to
my reports
on the OP
expediency of licensing certain Gambling
for special and exceptional
Hauses here for special
reasons.
2. Your Space is reported to have said
in reply to Lord Taunton, that I
I'arqued
very strongly in favor of what
faver of what appeared
to have been
very
common in some
of
" the Chinese cities, namely the granting
overnment licenses to Gambling houses, Macao"
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not with a view to putting them down, but with the object of obtaining
large Revenue from them, and of
mowning that no other such hauses
should be opened.
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3. I am not aware that such practice
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exists in
bhinese City, any
as that
referred to above. Gambling is a habit
indulged in
in by all clapes of Chinese,
though nominally forbidden by the Imperial leade. Neverthelep
no actual
License is ever extended to it in a
Chinese
city.
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Thus when I visited Canton
saw crowds
in 1866. Loaw
of gamblus, and several houses in which hundreds of people were publicly playing. Nevertheles this proceeding was, strictly speaking, contrary to Law. though probably the
same
thing had been
centuries in
み
banton.
going
on
for
The present Governor, or Tukai, of
banton; who
appears
to be
a man
unusually straightforward energy
of
and