CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 77

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will cost not a less sum

than £30,000. We have

Aro

right to ask this sum

sum from the mother concitry the present. sources of Colonial

Revenue will neve

us with it.

never furnish

Although it may

to raise a

wrong from so foul

a

a

be

revenue

source as

the vice of gambling yet it permitted to a -

may be

government of vary

local

confined

means to

experiment for

a

try the

limited

period of sanctioning gambling houses provided

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the price of such sanction be expended solely upon objects highly beneficial to the comminuity. After Vigilant a series of searches

crepected from

as can be

weath a

Police

as ours

believe that at the

time there

are d

ax

i so

سرح

the present

daily ~

between 40 and 50

450 gambling

houses at work in this

Colony. Not to form too

high.

an estrinate I.

I feel

convinced that £10,000.

um will be

per

аншил

espaid

for the gambling farm.

I therefore respectfully

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