CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2] — Page 211

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information which I have collected, the number of unlawful gambling houses existing in the Colony amounts at present to about thirty or forty. I propose to confine the registration License to fifteen.

I send translation of the tender of a Chinaman who desires to be the Farmer of the Licensed Gambling Houses. I have reason to believe the privilege would produce at least £6,000 a year to the public revenues of the Colony, a result not without its importance, as the possession of such an augmentation of revenue would enable me to accomplish many more useful objects for the good of the Colony!

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73 206 information which I have collected, the number of unlawful gambling houses existing in the Colony amounts at present to about thirty or forty. I propose to confine the registration License to fifteen. I send translation of the tender of a Chinaman who desires to be the Farmer of the Licensed Gambling Houses. I have reason to believe the privilege would produce at least £6,000 a year to the public revenues of the Colony, a result not without its importance, as the possession of such an augmentation of revenue would enable me to accomplish many more useful objects for the good of the Colony!
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@ 73 206 information which I have collected, the number of unlawful gambling I houses exicting in the Colony amounts at present to about thirty or forty. propose to confine the registration License to fifteen. I send translation of the tender Chinaman who desires to be the Farmer of the Licensed Gambling Louses. I have rexion to believe the No13. of a Chinaman privilege would produce at bact £6,000 a year to the public revenues of the Colony, a result not without its importance, as the poscersion of such an augmentation of revenue would enable me to accomplish many mort neeful objects for the good of the Colony!
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information which I have collected, the number of unlawful gambling

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houses exicting in the Colony amounts at present to about thirty or forty. propose to confine the registration License to fifteen.

I send translation of the tender Chinaman who desires to be the Farmer of the Licensed Gambling Louses. I have rexion to believe the

No13. of a Chinaman

privilege would produce at bact £6,000 a year

to the public revenues of

the Colony, a result not without its importance, as the poscersion of such

an

augmentation of revenue would enable me to accomplish many

mort

neeful objects for the good of the Colony!

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