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they commit another. They should be sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.
AL may or put in the stocks as a public example. They may perhaps be deterred thus.
6. If a gambler is brought to trial and found guilty, he should be imprisoned with hard labour for months (for a first offence), for years for a second offence, and for a further offence should be deported to his native home and handed over to the District Magistrate. The latter should hand him over to the charge of his relations on their going security for him. He should not be allowed to return to the colony.
7. Swindling dens (Pin sz suk, alias Fin sz Kut) are carried on in a rented house, which has the outward appearance of a regular place of business, or in a flat only. Their real purpose is to swindle people at gambling and their only prey are travelling merchants and strangers. Those in charge of these dens employ gangs of three...