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Theres in any said Letter of the
8th and in another Letter of the tooth of August last both addressed to the Colonial Secretary set forth at large
some of the reasons upon which my opinion is founded.
Among my reasons for this Ordinance are shartly the following.
That keeping gaming house being
by English Law Criminal it is at Win
x
least very questionable whether the It Ordinances of No. of 18
authorises the Governor to license
Some houses for gaming and that it
Wie is
heemt.
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:
is contrary to law to create as,
in fair trade much less in
even
without an exc
an express
Manopoly
in crime
and clear enactment.
and that therefore such Licensing should
be discontinued:
Livenous
That the sole object of issuing the
was to decrease gambling-
Whereas it has very greatly increased
that vise
That it has caused and fostered
· very serious crimes and that suicides have been band to it.
tegeed
That the Gambling Hruses have
been too numerous
fifteen in Hong Kong. With at the worst times at Paris there were
only eight and in the few places in - Germany in which Gambling is