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that the objects of the

mew

system justified

the Government in legalizing the resort to

Gaming houses of clapes not implicated in

the

of crime ar

Commision of

carruption of

the Police. To do so would be to extend

the licensing system beyond it's professed

limits, wherely it

was

from the first intended

Police

to confine it strictly to purposes of

necefpity.

9

It.

was

necepary, however, to ascertain

previously how many people frequented the

houses and therefore with this large number of the Police

object

and others

a

were employed, sufficient to prevent the spell

of duty

duty of

ome

any

being so protracted as to

render him careless or unequal to the duty.

Imay say that the queatest pains

Adere

taken in

getting up

my

wao

the retum- and it

intention to have earlier

forwarded

it to Your Grace but importimately

M?

Deane the Acting Superintendent of Iclice

has been

and the

some

capy

week's absent

on leave

which I popep has been

freshly compiled from the separate retums

of the different agents employed which

were?

was

very

voluminous but which had

fortunately been preserved

Enclosure W.2.10.

I now transmit that retum which

represents

one

who entered and left each

every of the Licensed houses during

six

consecutive days from Monday the

of Jane till Satinday the 4" July

days

So

inclusive. The

Requently from

29th

July both

same individuals

one house to another.

go