CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3] — Page 357

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following observations on the suggested modes of granting future Licenses for Gaming Houses

I would, however, in the first place very respectfully observe that this Government on which the responsibility, labor and anxiety has devolved of introducing all Legislation required to meet the new exceptional circumstances of this colony, legislation, which as a matter of fact has been unquestionably successful, might reasonably have hoped when His Grace commented on a part of that legislation to have been met in a somewhat different spirit from that, which a cursory reader could not help attributing to the despatch now under reply.

3. When the Duke "expresses his entire disapproval of the proceedings which my despatch had disclosed", and "requests me clearly to understand that unless they can be put a stop to and a legitimate, systematic organized system he will be reluctant, nay forced to reconsider the question of granting licenses to Gambling Houses" he is liable to be misinterpreted. Such remarks imply a general censure on this Government for all its proceedings in attempting to cope with evils which it did not create but which it found here and which owing to peculiar circumstances of this place engendered such serious crimes and corruption that unless I was contented to...

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352 following observations on the suggested modes of granting future Licenses for Gaming Houses I would, however, in the first place very respectfully observe that this Government on which the responsibility, labor and anxiety has devolved of introducing all Legislation required to meet the new exceptional circumstances of this colony, legislation, which as a matter of fact has been unquestionably successful, might reasonably have hoped when His Grace commented on a part of that legislation to have been met in a somewhat different spirit from that, which a cursory reader could not help attributing to the despatch now under reply. 3. When the Duke "expresses his entire disapproval of the proceedings which my despatch had disclosed", and "requests me clearly to understand that unless they can be put a stop to and a legitimate, systematic organized system he will be reluctant, nay forced to reconsider the question of granting licenses to Gambling Houses" he is liable to be misinterpreted. Such remarks imply a general censure on this Government for all its proceedings in attempting to cope with evils which it did not create but which it found here and which owing to peculiar circumstances of this place engendered such serious crimes and corruption that unless I was contented to... NDE
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following obesenations on the suggested modes of granting futive Licenses for Gaming Hauses

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