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arguments, for it would appear to bes quite possible for two persons to converse with the same chinese Warscholder, and de are haustly report him as bring hostile to and the ortion as being favorable

systems.

to the neww

had of late

add to this that I have

very great

reason to be

satisfied with the exertions of the Licensees, - They have

деге

to considerable expense in securing the

the suvices of a better cafe of

en u

inmployes, and more capable of preventing Chinese Servants and Clertes oblaining accefe to the Sicensed Norses. They have

also

put the Police

av

this track of many

retunid

bad characters and reboood carvvids,

whilst they have sheron themselves more)

than usually active in putting down attempts to establish illegal gamning

haunts.

9.

1 fove Grace will also find in

ihe enclosed statement to the Corneil explanation of the

Ml as ow

why attempts

itieve existed

are still made to reopen those haunts another point which had seemed to me difficult of explanation- legally licussed places where person might play openly without the risk of any penally. The explanation furnishes

to residents here

very strong

additional

grounds for maintaining the present substitute for the old illegal garning

deus

I Jchases, though probably people in England

tan mer

appreciate the wide difference