CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 187

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

measures taken

The result of the will be gathered from the enclosed

return (Paper A) and

on my departure

through sicknes for England in I October 1865. I have reason to believe

that not more than 20 houses were

M

existence.

A table of the harses broken bitween October 1862 and 1866 by the Acting Registian General (Mr Tomecky) and by the Police is also inclosed (Paper B)-

When in October 1866 I was

directed to act as Superintendent of Police, I again paid special attention to this branch of crime. I enclose a list of the houses supposed to have existed at that time (Paper C.)

went...

broken.

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Several of these In the month of January 1869 I

signed eleven warrants to enter I Gambling Houses.

was

that of the above information obtained from a Police Constable named

Marker, who

was.

a time

for à

most

energetic in his efforts to breas Gambling Houses. He som, however, look to receiving

bribes, heavier in

proportion to the rest of the face,

owing to the fear felt of him. He continued to give information, hit the number of

in which prom

cas es

errers

en

were

taken became les frequent. The master

the houses invariably escaping.

of

This

was

doubtless noing

to

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