? St J. 3. 458 Licensed Gambling Houses, which I also express my fear lest, is prevented having access to those places, they might be the means of promoting much secret gaming. I have the honour to state that I have again been considering the subject. I have reflected that as the Licensing of Gaming Houses is only defensible as a Police measure, for preventing the Corruption of the Police and the assemblage of bad characters in illegal haunts, where they plan various robberies and Burglaries and incite one another to further Crimes, by their constant association meeting under circumstances defiant of Law.
I confess I cannot think it right to admit any woman into those houses, because a woman is not one of the class against whom Police precautions of that kind are meant to be taken.
3. It may or may not be true that if they are shut out from those houses they will establish private Gaming houses, beyond the reach of the Law, and injurious to Society more or less. I do not, however, think that this risk is one with which the Executive is called upon to concern itself, and I hope it is an evil...