12.

13.

245

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

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

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