with gambling on the part of the Jesuits(?) or Leskongs.
• As to the general internal economy of the Police Force, I may be wrong, but I gathered that it was certainly imagined that it was an unwritten law of the Civil Service before proceeding to an inquiry (exhaustive as to details although not so as to the cultivation of witnesses) into the working of a Department, that some marked complaint should have come under consideration, to which official reference could be made, and that the Head of the Department should have been called on to report. This course has not been adopted in the present case, neither was the extended nature of the inquiry made known to me until the conclusion of my evidence, when His Excellency the Major General put a general question to me (page...), which caused me to inquire as to the scope of the Proceedings. It is not observed that one single question was addressed to me on the topics referred to in paragraphs 24, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48 of the Committee's report.
I do not record this entirely as a matter of complaint, but it compels me, under the disadvantageous circumstances of the Committee having already made up their minds and recorded their opinions, to write fully when answers at the time of the inquiry might have materially modified the conclusions arrived at. Apart from the existence of any evidence to the contrary, the examination of the Crime Reports...
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Note that I corrected "Leskongs" to potentially "Jesuits" as it seems more plausible, but without further context, it's hard to be certain. "Leskongs" might be a specific term or name relevant to the historical context that I'm not aware of. I also corrected various spelling errors and improved spacing and sentence structure according to the given rules. The original text had several OCR errors, which I attempted to correct while preserving the original content and structure as much as possible. I formatted the output in HTML as requested.