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vernment. The amount of the remission depends on the amount that I tell concerning this gambling. The gambling houses are big gambling houses. I have seldom visited other houses and I don't know whether there are bigger ones. I used to vi- sit the house at Wa Lane once or twice daily. I have been at gambling house a little after 6 a.m. Coolies go to gamble at the hour in the morning. Firemen and seamen and working men go there. It is very seldom that people with long coats go there. When the gambling house has been broken the person

that are arrested are generally coolies. The people that are

arrested are a fair specimen of the people that frequent

the house. The jewellery seized by the Captain Supt. of Police

was worth over $800.Most of it was stakeɖby men, a little by

women. One prostitute came & gave evidence against me. At the

time she staked the things I do not know where she was

living. She was living next door last year. The women that

gambled at the house were principally prostitutes out of

the lane. They sometimes entered by the street and sometimes

by the roof. There is no fixed capital. In case of loss there

are contributions made. The $1,000 and jewellery seized at

the time of the raid is counted as capital. It is used to

draw on for the purposes of the gambling. If there is a gain

the capital becomes larger. If a loss the shareholders con-

tribute.

When the gambling was started in the morn-

ing $50 was sent to the gambling house to form the bank. If

the

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