26
27 253/
vouch
our intentions,
corroborate
27
In Suffert
law
we think they assertions.
my first, despatch on the MEMO
which is that most calculated
from it's somewhat crude expressions of my early ideas to favor the theory of the Memorialists. I mentioned that the
measure was
advocated by the Members of the Legislative Council and certainly I never heard objections, here
from
my one
28th August
one till long afterwards as to the Revenue arising incidentally from it. Nevertheless if it had been proposed merely
of raising Revenue I am convinced that it would not have
as a means
received the vote of the Council.
one
individual in
1866.
28
The
ground, however,
on which even
then I myself placed its necessity
has
never
changed and is still the
same viz: the hopelessness of suppressing
Gambling by
mere
Laws
by any
Police procurable by the Colony together with the miserable corruption of
of the
Police To V. To all resulting from the
old system which seemed to be thoroughly played out
29.
me
I mentioned in the same despatch
the large amount which the Chinese
would give for Licenses
and which I then computed at $200,000 per annum
(which strange to say is the
Sum
of
now paid) as a tolerable measure the extent of the bribes which the Chinese
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26
27 253/
vouch
our intentions,
corroborate
27
In Suffert
law
we think they assertions.
my first, despatch on the MEMO
which is that most calculated
from it's somewhat crude expressions of my early ideas to favor the theory of the Memorialists. I mentioned that the
measure was
advocated by the Members of the Legislative Council and certainly I never heard objections, here
from
my one
28th August
one till long afterwards as to the Revenue arising incidentally from it. Nevertheless if it had been proposed merely
of raising Revenue I am convinced that it would not have
as a means
received the vote of the Council.
one
individual in
1866.
28
The
ground, however,
on which even
then I myself placed its necessity
has
never
changed and is still the
same viz: the hopelessness of suppressing
Gambling by
mere
Laws
by any
Police procurable by the Colony together with the miserable corruption of
of the
Police To V. To all resulting from the
old system which seemed to be thoroughly played out
29.
me
I mentioned in the same despatch
the large amount which the Chinese
would give for Licenses
and which I then computed at $200,000 per annum
(which strange to say is the
Sum
of
now paid) as a tolerable measure the extent of the bribes which the Chinese