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represented to me to

quite separate from those licensed by the Chinese Government,

In fact from

all

J

cow.

in bhina is

learn, gambling

every where forbidden

every where practised, and is

and

everywhere

the source of a great amount of mischief

aggravated by the injudicious

manner in

which it is dealt with by the Authorities. 12. I will

моли

enclose

for Your

Encloome We

Lordship's information the Police retrive for Enters &

the month ended on the 14th instant, of the number of illegal and dangerous

viz: 46, and Timite

characters arrested.

attention to the fact that all those 16

persono

were captured through information supplied by the

agency of Mr baldwell acting for the Licensees.

63. I next transmit the return of charges

Exclame note of Larceny against Sewanto, during the

first

which

A

Quanter of the

of the curent

year, a perical

moreover included the time of greatest temptation to that class during the

peculiar festivities and obligations of the

bhinese

mewu

year in February. I may here

infarm Mom Lordship, that the evil which ariginally I and others moet to

the temptation,

apprehended

was

hold out to Servants by opening legal

places of gaming. The result however contradicts all expectation, and proves under what contral the Licensees are

Rept by the present system. Stormerly the cases of Larceny by Servants averaged upwards of 80 per Quarter, where as fince