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proportion the amount of License fees to
the Talice pumposes, which alone
they
designed to promote, and but for previous experience
wvere
long to the uncutrinty
such experimento I might not from time to time have been so careful to wam Your Space of the entirely experimental and tentative nature of the system which the necessity of self defence had compelled
me
to organize.
by I have now to report a recent and "stritting illustration of the difficulty of : foreseeing results in such
cases. I had for
some time been anxious to exclude all
stereigners, in fact all but persons of Chinese Malay and Indian
race from entering the
Skay Hauses, and I was quite prepared to
maté
any
and
every
reasonable reduction
in the amount of fees payable by the Licensees
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compensation for the lop, which I supposed would result to them from diminishing the
number of their customers.
especially
in the
dup which occasionally played for the highest states.
8.
As events had proqreped I could not but feel that although it might be and
was time that the propensity
certainly
to
gambling amongst the Chinese preputation
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so ineprepible us to render the i substitution of some system which.
it, under the control
of Goverment
permitted
Surveillance, preferable to its secret continuance
accompanied by evilo
leading
to crime and
Tolice corruption it did not therefore follow