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with offenses against the gam bling ordinances, which are purely

a chatter mider the

@ognizance

of the Police, I should have been

outside wi

going have laid myself open to the censure of my employers.

This will early appear

my duty, and might

from an order made

;

by the Govern-

24th.

ment and notified to the Suspectors of Nuisances on the 244 the. January 1884 in the following terms :-

"The Chief Inspector and "Inspectors of Nuisances are to "abstain from entering into Police. "Raids on gambling houses or any "other duty, not of a Sanitary

nature, at the same time it is "the wish of His Excellency the "Governor that the Inopestors " "should give advice, information

and

and

every

assistance to the Police

in all matters relating to Sanitation

earrying

and the

out

Sanitary Regulations.

9.

fore

mi

of

the

Cool. ) Hugh Me Callum,

24th. January 1884

I respectfully submit there

conclusion:-

(a). That it was no

6 part of my duly to report or interfere with gambling

houses:

(6) That therefore the fact

that I did not do so, raises

20

inference or presumption

against

me that I was

a consideration.

receiving to prevent

20.

m

© That there is no

from doing

other evidence

of any sort against

me

proving

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