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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