CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 104

- subject to such special surveillance as

the Excecutive might deem

24.

The

great

necessary obstacle to

carrying this

wab

very important reform, which

not

attempted till the most strenuous efforts

had failed to close the haunts of illegal gambling and their

and their confederates,

from inability to discover

any

arobe

stimulus

conduct and loyal observance

to the go

good

of the Government rules

by

Licensees

the

of

such houses so

powerful as payment

forfeiture

of fees sufficiently large to render of their Licenses a heavy funcikty, before expenditive incurred. To

the

re-couping Myself expecially.

and to Her

Govemment the receipt of any

Gambling Licenses

is

Majestijo Revenue from

is most distrsteful. It

likewise

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for imputation of

gives motives, which have had whatever in

mo

influence

the

shaping the policy of

Executive because such Revenue

is

of

really

а

nothing but the accidental result legitimate effort to discharge one of the mast evident duties of Government by

haunts of vice and crime- supprefazeutain haunts

dangerous to socrity from their secret

and ille

illegal native,

the most fertile

dangerous

also

ab

source of demoralization

of the force entrusted with the protection

of life and property.

26.

May despatch No 381 of this mouth will have apprized Your Grace of the great success of the experiment

ao to the

principal oleject aimed at ring suppressing