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Excise revenue beyond the Stamp duty. Had Your Grace not forbidden the receipt of Revenue from the Licenses for any gaming houses, it might have been preferable to have made both ends meet.

Those houses will open in a few days, in accordance with arrangements completed so far to render it unfair to forbid it. I shall thereby be able to gather experience of a valuable kind from their working. Nevertheless, as I never suggested any plan for merely opening gaming houses, but one accompanied by Conditions calculated to ensure Chinese cooperation in putting down illegal gaming and with it the existing corruption of the Police, I mean to close them on the 1st of next January, and therefore the Revenue derivable thence, though imposed for merely Police purposes, cannot bring the collateral relief it might have afforded to the finances of the Colony during next year.

And here I may explain that in computing a Revenue of $100,000 derivable from that Source during 1868, I did not thereby calculate on the gambling Licenses necessarily producing a regular monthly receipt between $8000 and $9000. On the contrary, I freely confess that, in so new an experiment, I felt entirely at a loss to ascertain what sum would suffice to meet the legitimate Police expenses.

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Excise revenue beyond the Stamp duty. Had Your Grace not forbidden the receipt of Revenue from the Licenses for any gaming houses, it might have been preferable to have made both ends meet. Those houses will open in a few days, in accordance with arrangements completed so far to render it unfair to forbid it. I shall thereby be able to gather experience of a valuable kind from their working. Nevertheless, as I never suggested any plan for merely opening gaming houses, but one accompanied by Conditions calculated to ensure Chinese cooperation in putting down illegal gaming and with it the existing corruption of the Police, I mean to close them on the 1st of next January, and therefore the Revenue derivable thence, though imposed for merely Police purposes, cannot bring the collateral relief it might have afforded to the finances of the Colony during next year. And here I may explain that in computing a Revenue of $100,000 derivable from that Source during 1868, I did not thereby calculate on the gambling Licenses necessarily producing a regular monthly receipt between $8000 and $9000. On the contrary, I freely confess that, in so new an experiment, I felt entirely at a loss to ascertain what sum would suffice to meet the legitimate Police expenses.
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tuxcition beyond the Stamp duty. Had Your Grace not forbidden the receipt of Revenue from the Licenses for any gaming houses, it might have been prefaible to have made both ends meet. days, in accordance with 32. Those houses will open in a few days, completed so far OD arrangemento to render it unfair to the Licenses to forbid it. I shall thereby be able to gather experience of a valuable Kind from their working Nevertheles as I never suggested any plon for merely opening gaming hauses, punles com Conditions calculated to ensure down lahinese cooperation in putting illegal gaming and with it the existing conuption of the Police, I all mean to close them on the 1st 267 of next January, and therefore the Revenue dernable thence though imposed for merely Golice purposes connet bring the collateral relief it might have afforded to the finances of the lealny during nexet year. And here I a Revenue of $100, computing derivable from that may explain that in $100,000 Source during من 1868, I did not thereby calculate on the gambling Lianses necepivily producing a regular and $9000. monthly receipt between $8000 On the contrary I freely confeps that, in So new an experiment, I felt entirely at a lop to ascertain what sum would suffice to meet the legitimate Police
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tuxcition beyond the Stamp duty. Had Your Grace not forbidden the receipt of Revenue from the Licenses for

any

gaming houses, it might have been

prefaible to have made both ends meet.

days, in accordance with

32.

Those houses will open in a

few

days,

completed so far

OD

arrangemento

to render it unfair

to the Licenses to forbid it. I shall

thereby be able to gather experience of a valuable Kind from their working Nevertheles as I

never

suggested any

plon for merely opening gaming hauses,

punles

com

Conditions calculated to ensure

down

lahinese cooperation in putting

illegal gaming and with it the existing conuption of the Police, I

all

mean

to close them on the 1st

267

of

next

January, and therefore the Revenue dernable thence though imposed for merely Golice purposes connet bring the collateral relief it might have afforded to the finances of the lealny during

nexet

year.

And here I

a Revenue of $100,

computing derivable from that

may explain that in

$100,000

Source

during

من

1868, I

did not thereby calculate on the gambling Lianses necepivily producing a regular

and

$9000.

monthly receipt between $8000 On the contrary I freely confeps that, in

So new an

experiment, I felt entirely at

a lop to ascertain what sum would suffice to meet the legitimate Police

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