CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 24

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evils which now beset it and which have been herein onliff partially alluded to.

We have not 5 & miles distant assettlement in mony points resembling perhaps so far as gambling

our own in all

comes

is concerned, there the vice is

far met out and the sby; under the control of the law. Masar is free from many of the evils which beat us and which I have already alluded to. With a

large

Chinese population it has a merely nominal Polies Force and yet it is farmor free

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from crime than Hongkong. Iny wishing to legalings public gaming would put it under many reshictions, the hours of play should be limited and the number of Jaming houses, the

gaming rooms should be open, groom

up menon allowed to frequent the houses, the Reepers should be responsible for all thefts the spoils of which it could be pomed had been got rid of

en should alone be

with them, these and other

rutes of a similar description would be of infinite assistance

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