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13.
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The Polin Fore are no longer amempted
by
corrupted
bribes, the inducement to fee them
certain classes of Offences
being gone,
have disappeared from the Colony
entirely and with chem
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certain class
were
of offenders. The Criminal Clafer, deprived of their former haunts, where they comparatively aving to the bribery of the Police, have
Decure
from molestation
decreased much in number, and crime
has decreased abo, partly because the Licensing of Gambling aids so materially in marthing the idle and criminal? class. Embezzlement by survants and ether Chinese employe's has much decreased) abe, although the opponents of the scheme afort the contrary, forgetting entirely that
mor
every
case is heard of and traced,
any
shing to do with
if Grambling has it, while formerly the
AMI Mever
heard of, or, if they were, gambling
was
never alluded to as it did not suit
either the culprits, their friends, or the
bribed Police to attribute it to such a
made
cause, and the lap
good by the Compradore or friends of the culprit
if in forsign amplay, while if the master
Chinese, they did not
omplayers report it as
VOCAL
nothing
was
to be
got from
Gambling Wase Keepers. The
The searit Gambling
respectable Chinese have been relieved
from a burdensome tax, used to
scord
occur,
as when the riot
arising out of quarrels in
gambling hawes, they had to pay