Pages relating to attempts to legalize or suppress gambling in Hong Kong, and legislative amendments thereto.
Efforts were made to legalize gambling, more than once pressed for, but in vain. The negotiations already mentioned went on during the interval between 1844 and 1866. Down to 1865, the joint license of Macao lasted; that of Calcutta ceased prior to the end of 1865. The negotiations with Calcutta were still active in 1866, when the Gambling Farm Ordinance was instituted, the futile attempt being the only local Ordinance in force against gaming, and the English statute law "applicable" to that offense still continued to be treated as though it had been a dead letter.
Chinese Reports for May 1873. Not to pr. 572.
For May (Canton), 34 "Within a few weeks, two proclamations have been issued by the local magistrates, strictly interdicting gambling, in order that the country may enjoy tranquillity. I observe &c. The edict is set forth at length in the papers. Such orders came out in Canton early this year. The police forces were set in motion; and the consequence was that all the nests of gamblers in the suburbs were broken up.
A form of the Peking Gazette &c. "Espeamen properly King Throne; &c. extracts from the Edict (January 30th 1836)?? 1836. On the western frontier, the Superintendent of the Provincial Plan has declared that Kew-he was appointed to gamble with the Prefect of the Chwary-Esen-wany, Keikthan, and continued to do so for more than a month without being detected, the trim wang. "This is not a mere ordinary case of negligence. Let the ton-wang therefore be subjected to a count of laggin of the Tsung-jin for respect the law."
In December 1844, "October The Nanhai-hien published a proclamation against Cottines. This form of gambling has been imported from the Portuguese.
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