CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 164

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Even

ven to it regret that

any

Survive; but

may

be matter of

Revenue should necepmiky

no one

has

ever shewn

any

the

mode of prudently dispensing with it, or has hitherto devised a substitute for control which payment of a sufficient premium by the Licensees their conduct. Fill such suggestion

made

J

com

ensures over

be

only repeat, that the receipt

of any Revenue whatever from such a source

is an

unsought and, I might almost, say,

produces, or for any

other of ito collateral

results. So clear however is the necessity

for some such

auangement

that

even

that portion of the local Shep, which decries most warmly the receipt of the least Reven se from such a source, admits, and from the first has admitted, the I

expediency of licensing

a view to

to cu

tuchhrefsing

some houses with

a worse

gaming haunto. lo. It is, however, very

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those, who entertain a

clap of

natural with.

repugnance

System.

It is

is no part

anything

contrary to one's

English

training

and intuitive

feelings,

9.

an unwelcome result of the necepity fimposed by the

of the cbject of that system

q. If, however, there be no real necessity for the Policy adopted, then

is no

of

course there

which

justification for the Revenue, it

د

CH

gain from such a source, to ask, has the nerepity for Licencing any

made clearly apparent ? As

houses been

no one could

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