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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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