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5.

determination, took measures

Gambling

for putting

down

in that city. His measures would soon hit down.

gambling any where,

because when he pleased he could raze houses to their foundation, and treat those whom he considered offenders with arbitrary punishments, involving not merely imprisonment, but the torture of the banque. The result, however, has been that these

moceedings

Loccumences

with other contemporaneous

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have made him so many enemies that he is now reculled, and the

old system will probably revive. 5. On the other hand in the Portuguese settlement of Macas Regulations have been established licensing certain houses for gambling. I think it not improbable,

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if applied to Macao, Your Space's observations would be found applicable, as the principal,

was

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The

if not the only original, motive for that policy at Macao most undoubtedly acquisition of a Revenice. Nevertheless Macao

is a

place remarttable for the absence of crime, except in connection with the H

on

Kidnapping trade carried

from thence; and I have heard such comparative

freedom from theft and robberies attributed.

are

to the Supervision which the Police enabled to maintain over

bad characters

through the Licenses of the Gambling

Houses.

le.

Your Space, however, is sufficiently aware that this Government has not been swayed by any

desire of gain.

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