CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 172

jaefert greatly diminishes their

would gratify

me more.

gains. nothing

than compencating

them for loses so incurred provided the Number of persons excluded did not eventually become so

great

as to induce

the resort to secret and worse haunts.

27. Your Grace thus perceives the enormous power, which a Government dealing with

with a view to the

the Licensees. entirely with

Sublic interests, and without any regard

must excercive through

to profit- must

through the

H

Medium of these monthly payments. There

Lis as

io,

to the

الذ

were, a squaring of accounts as

good

and evil

doings of each

minth, and, if any person an equally potent means

can devise

ans of making..

these houses hilfil the object with which

they are established, and will

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thereby

free that policy from unreasonable attack's I should

as a

regard such person

a public benefactor.

28. In reference to servanto frequenting

the Gambling Houses I need scarcely n

eleserve that it is

temptations to that

very impolitic to afford

clap

to risk their

are riduced to

money, as thereby they make good their lopes at their masters" expense, by thieving.

thieving or otherwise. This

has always been a prolific

Долися

crime here, and it would be

of

difficult or

any comparison

rather imposible to institute betiveen the number of such offences - having their origin in Gambling

and in former times. because no servant