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of late, and the more so that the Police and Licensees are now mutually pitted against one another, instead of being guilty and joined as formerly in a corrupt league to deceive the Authorities.
Hence my praise from the Inspectors, who are more often changed monthly, probably well deserved!
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Having by the above returns endeavored to enable Your Lordship to judge as well as myself how the system is working to correct the present irregularity, decrease of crime, and relief from the canker of Police Corruption with the ills of the past, I think Your Lordship must be in a better position to decide whether any misapprehended motives justify the deliberate abandonment of great and certain public benefits, and the wilful reintroducing of acknowledged mischiefs without the least reasonable hope of thereby abating the evil of gambling.
By the way, I do not say much as to the Revenue arising from the existing system. Personally I think the best thing of all would be to have the system without the Revenue, but whether that can be done, Mr ties and they agree with Mr Anstey (not of 1869 but of 1869 Blue Book!)
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and see nothing repugnant in it to English Law, though I see much that is very repugnant to my feelings. At the same time if it be right to select