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This Petition requesting is Excellency The Lieutenant Governor to apply to the Home Government for leave to close the Gaming House's Licensed for Asiaties is more
numerously signed or scaled
than
my
any
other document
which has emanated from the Chinese Community, suce tenure of Office. Without comment, however, the fact of Such a Setition bening so numerously signed would entirely mislead those into whose hands it is intended.
to pass.
It is not necessary for
Me
4
7.
me here to express any 230 opinion on the subject of the Setition, but I may mention that as far as I can learn there is to queer al objection the Chinese Community
arrong
to the Systure of Licensing Gaming Houses, indeed
on the contrary, leading
and Substantial mew, whe
are not
lu
in
any way
interested
the Licenses, are in some
Cases in
in favour of, and in
1
other cases not aversets the action of the Government in this matter.
This Petition can only
considered considered as another effort on the part of the Missionaries in Hougtong