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5.
determination, took measures
Gambling
for putting
down
in that city. His measures would soon hit down.
gambling any where,
because when he pleased he could raze houses to their foundation, and treat those whom he considered offenders with arbitrary punishments, involving not merely imprisonment, but the torture of the banque. The result, however, has been that these
moceedings
Loccumences
with other contemporaneous
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have made him so many enemies that he is now reculled, and the
old system will probably revive. 5. On the other hand in the Portuguese settlement of Macas Regulations have been established licensing certain houses for gambling. I think it not improbable,
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if applied to Macao, Your Space's observations would be found applicable, as the principal,
was
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The
if not the only original, motive for that policy at Macao most undoubtedly acquisition of a Revenice. Nevertheless Macao
is a
place remarttable for the absence of crime, except in connection with the H
on
Kidnapping trade carried
from thence; and I have heard such comparative
freedom from theft and robberies attributed.
are
to the Supervision which the Police enabled to maintain over
bad characters
through the Licenses of the Gambling
Houses.
le.
Your Space, however, is sufficiently aware that this Government has not been swayed by any
desire of gain.
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