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plans for the exclusion of Sewants from the Tublic Gaming tables.
I am bound to
Say
a measure in which
that I have
I have received
the most hearty and effective aid from the.
Licensees.
5. J
I therefore consider that, where the
cause and effect
are as in this case, so 1?
proximate and So plain, it may favily be
inferred that Larceny by senants has
inducement
lefs inde
declined because they have lef
to incur
debt
through
now than farmerly Gambling, owing to their exclusion from
the Licensed houses, whilst illegal farming haunts have practically
ceased to exist.
They are thus constrained, as it
were, to
Keep aloof hom the chief mincentive to crime, 。 and, so far it, seems
imposible to den
deny
that the Licensing Systim has been the
cause
of
a mast exchaordinary improvement in that class of persons, whom it
wab
supposed especially calculated to injure.
This is one
b.
of those results which
so often baffle previous speculations in
questions of political
economy,
whase
complete scope and development
it is
difficult to foresee, because accuute calculation is prevented by the
prevented by the impofsibility
of taking in beforehand at one view the whole of the field destined to be occupied
by results
of
a new
cursory glance at my
Folicy. A most
own
despatches in
connection with the establishment of
Licensed houses will show how difficult
it
was to foresee the action
necessary
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