CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 340

6.

$5,337,370

rab

-4/5/1⁄2 the exchange

recently prevailing exceeding ₤1189,400 "Stering. The sun last by unfortunate

Samblers must be at larë

large.

Bué rent of fifteen Gaming-

Anse intrat on

Capital payments

M Mt. D. R. Caldwell in one year amounting to $2,000), to

a dettative

Staff (an independent Police) to Manizer Servants and legal-Agent

and trade profits to the

Lafees annot be estimated at lep them equal to that paid to havemment.

WAL

Doubling therefore the Capital

represented by the rent to

Government viz: - $5,337,370 itmaho

as the

the aggregate sum wom

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332

by the

fortunate Gamblers (what they staked would probably be more the

aggregate can lose by untrinmate Bankers is obviously at least the like sum of £2,578,800, within the

P.

years 1867 and 1868. _

The vast amount actually

by

ababeh would but for gambling- have been, in great fint at least, put into circulation distributed and expended in small sums the Bamblers for legitiment aux useful purposes in payments small Praters and otherwise in the Colony. -

$10,674,740 on over

£2,378,800, Sterling

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On reference to the House of