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dare

formerly betray the illegal houses which he frequented, without risk

serious maltreatment and even

of

of Munster.

29

What is

popible

is to ascertain from

the Police records the number of servants

of all clapes proceded aquinot for Larceny formerly and under the present system.

enclose with this a Return prepared by Enclosure H...

the Acting Superintendent of Tolice shuving

the

• average

Number of Sewanto accused

of Larceny during

15 weeks in 1865.

ible +67. respectively as compared with the

66.

1th

15 week's which elapsed from 15th September, when

The Licensed houses were

end of those

years.

30. In 1865 the

Such cases

opened to the

average number of for 15 weeks was 86- in 1866.

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75. for the portion of 1867 before opening

the Licensed Houses 8'

87-

and

during the

15 weeks which followed 82. I am therefore.

entitled to

infer that the establishment of those houses under the control of Government has not increased the number. of Larcenies by servants and I expect

find them greatly

during

1868 to

diminished-

I shall not ful to give that important-

question every

attention, as

there is reas to hope.

power of tracing frequenters of these

houses must

ere

long deter

many

habitual

ganesters of that clap from visiting them

3.1. The more

respectable Chinese seldom- resort there, and it would be incomprehensible

how such establishments could be

supported

were

it not for the

great

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