CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 292

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

In

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questions that

may hereafter

arise as

to

these License Fees. I have the honor to

request that Heis Excellency the Governor

will cause me to be informed how the

granted and in what

way

Licenses were

the monthly sums payable there for

fixed.

I have &

Signed) M. H. Kinnie

Auditor General.

Trive capy foi fikk

acting boatomial, Secreting

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In

In

August last

to make enquiries

year

289

I was instructed

to the character

and local standing of certain bhinese who had offered various sumo for

the

privilege of opening the twelve gambling houses which the Government proposed to license.

I lound that those who offered the

largest

sums expected to obtain permision to start as many

houses

as

Seemed to

them expedient. I also saw that others were unable to produce becurity Sufficiently

valid to ensure a due

performance of the conditions to be imposed by the

license.

Subsequently those whose

offered

names are

attached, to take charge of the licenses

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