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sufficient pool had not been given of the

existence of illegal Gambling

houses.

15. I now transmit Mc Deane's report

a return (A) of the number of covering 1 Gambling houses which he himself broke up, when Acting Registrar General in 1865. from June to November. they mounted to 19. Nevertheless when he left in November

he had reason to believe there were still about 20 in existence. From

that

year

1 November 1865. to October 1866 a list

(B) is

also

given of 35 houses broken into

Denne

and neverthelefo Mo" Lleume compiles

on

secret information

a list (C) of 45

..

gemning houses existing at the end of

What

period viz.

on the 1st November 1806.

16. To substitute for these senet and

Enclosure Net.

numerous haunts of hime and corruption.

a

fer houses subject to Iclice supervision,

and to make it the interest of the Licensees

to

supprefs all secret gambling haunts- as

well

in

as to conduct their establishments

conformity with any requéations imposed from time to time by the Government, has been the object, and I may now affirm has been the actual result of the system

,

at present in operation.

To revert to the old policy,

17.

the dins of iniquity

in the

to recreate

now abolished, and •

Police, which

way of any

to place this Government temptations

can

us must

procure, such

agam

render it

certain that in a short time the Force

will be no longer trustworthy, and be

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