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fighting implements, with which

deadly blows are

10.

inflicted.

Publie Gambling is as pregnant

of evil to the Chinese as Drunkiness is to European Commmunities. It przewors

-power of fascination

over

the Chinese

renders it the

which generally

greatest public evil in the leolony - It is the Chief inducement to the Commission of robbery, leads to frequent riots and occasionally to loss of life.

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The Keepers of gaming houses-

their plans in an or

organized form- they employ touters and der bleepers, and are lavish with funds for bribing Police subordinates or others, in order to obtain protection or gain information of

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intended interference of

the law.

To abolish publie gambling altogether.

is scarcely to be expected, but to strive to the utmost to suppress it,

to

stigmatise

it with the disgrace of comporal__

punishment

, and to pursue it with the utmost rigor of the law, is In

respectfully yet-earnisily submit, a duty to the chinese community; whatever - amount of limit

or restriction is obtained

public gambling is a certain amount. of good gained. -

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"Disturbance in Brothels". It is

a custom of Chinese brothels that

persons may

visit them and be welcomed

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and supplied with lea and loba without expectation of payment. This