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BETTING TAX IN

CEYLON.

SOCIAL AND MORAL ASPECTS.

BILL PASSES INITIAL READING.

TELL-TALE-INKS.

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TESTS USED IN CRIME AND FORGERY,

In a lecture on Tell-tale Inks," at the Horaiman Museuni Forest Hill, London, Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, the handwriting expert, In the Ceylon Legislative Coun- gave his audience an insight into cil on February 28, the Attorney- the methods of detecting criminals General, Mr. E. St. J. Jacket,nd settling legal disputes from a moved the first reading of "An Or-knowledge of the composition and dinance for the taxing of betting age of inks, and their "reaction to on horse-racing, for the registra in chemical tests. tion of racecourses and for exempt ing taxable bets from the provisions of the Gaming Ordinance, 1880."

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The modern blue-black inks can be distinguished, said the lecturer, by the fact that they contain blue dyes, which differ in quantity and

porary colours differ in their char- acter it is possible to distinguish between them by chemical tests and optical examination. **

It appeared, he said, from then their nature. When these tem- statement accompanying the Bill that the Bill had 出 dual object, the imposition of tax of 2) per cent. on bets of a kind which was described as tax- able and the prohibition of other forms of betting. The two sides might be described as the financial and the social.

The history of the representa tions which led to the introduction of the Bill began in February, 1924, when the Financial Relations Com- mission, which included four mem- -bers of the Council; recommend-

Tests For Ago.

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It was often possible to determine the age of an ink. The cider inks had a woolly effect, as compared with the crystal-line and clear-cut appearance of modern inks. elaims for old peerages, documents had been produced to show that cer- there had been etses where it was tain pedigrees were genuine, and shown that the alleged old writings were not really of the age they pre- tended to be.

"This is important from the point Ed that Government should consi-of "view of the claims to old age deg the introduction of a betting pensions," said Dr. Mitchell." Peo

ple have produced family Bibles as tax, and more recently in December, a proof of age, and in several cases 1525, the Taxation Committee,

the ink has contained aniline blue which included ning members in until abotit the early sixties. An dyes, which were not discovered

addition to Sir Wilfrid Woods as aniline dye, therefore, of a date say, chairman, recommended a betting the entry being genuine, and several in the 'fties,. is incompatible with

tax of 2 per cent. on taxable bets claims have been disproved on this and that all other forms of letting ground." we prohibited.

The Social Question, While these representations were being made, what was considered the social side of the question was kept alive by motions in the House by the hon. member for Urban Electorate of the Central Province

and also. by numerous representa

Was

Another way by which an ink could be distinguished was by its behaviour on a chemical reagent being applied. An ink, ten years old would resist action; whereas a fresh ink reacts at once and smudges.

Proof of Forgery.

He intended to get away to Rot terdam but was held up in London. A parter at the hotel where he stop- ped, found on the roof some paper fragments bearing foreign charac ters. The German was arrested and amongst the things found in his pos- session were a pen and a lemon, which had been cut. The letter was subjected to beat wall the details of the ships then appeared between the lines. The pen was found to con which was used probably to make tain fruit juice and formaline, the writing develop nut 100 readily.

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The lecturer recalled the case of Col. Pilcher, shortly before the war, who produced a will in which be tions in the Press.

As far as he could gather the was left the whole estate of his. 930. canipaiga

pousin, an elderly woman. The re- directed solely against those private, betting in-latives entered a caveat and he was stitutions which were popularly cal reagents were applied to the charged with forgery. When chemi- known as "bucket shops," and it signatures of the witnesses and the was represented that those institu tions extended opportunities for body of the will there was immediate reaction, the inks smudged, and ran betting by receiving bets on sees all over the paper showing that the held outside this country as well will was not thirty years old as as" in Ceylon and that they were alleged. scattering temptations to all parts of the country and working great hardship on the families of those unfortunate people who yielded to those temptations.

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Passing to copying-ink pencils, composed of a mixture of aciline dyes, blacklead and clay, Dr. Mit chell referred to the Camden Town murder in 1907, when Robert Wood He noticed also Amoug the

was charged with, the murder of a rensons given in India for the in-woman and a postcard and writing production of a similar Bill that found in a drawer played a pro- the bucket shops" practised fraud minent part at the trial. The writ and derelt upon the general public. ing was found to agree with a copy- He had no evidence before him to ing-ink pencil in his possession. He POSITIONS WANTED. WATime TEACHER to teach

say that the same was the case in Ceylon, but it was an obvious pos- Bibility, though not an actual fact. It would be seen from the Gaming Ordinance. Section 23 gave exemp. tion to clubs, hotels and resthouses, but under the new Bill no protec tion would be given them. Tho "bucket shops were a growing evil and with the introduction of the Indian legislation the number of bucket shops" increased consider ably.

In January, 1922, there were 15 and in October the number had risen to 51. That was as far as the police could trace them. Early last year, upon representations made, an order was made for the closing of the shops, and nearly all were closed down; but the protec tion given under the Gaming Or dinanes to clubs was availed of and the bucket shops" were again opened for members only.

was acquitted of the murder, but admitted having written the post- card and fragments of writing that were found.

Spy's Work Bavealed.

How Anton Kupferle, the German and his secret writing interpreted, apy was detected during the war,

woollen merchant from New York, was also described. Disguised as a he went to Ireland, and took par ticulars of ships in the Irish Chan-

nel, which he wrote in secret ink between the lines of an inrecent- looking letter.

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The Bill did not create a mono- poly in any way. Any person cloud register a facecourse and run raees upon it. Nor was there any obligation on the part of the man who registered it to have a tötelisa- tor. The only thing was that Gov- ernment would collect a tax if any betting was done.

Evil of Bace Clubs, There were now 22 race club known to the police, and there was every sign of that number growing Members might have observed unless the law was strengthened to that the tax was one on stakes and enable the police to take action. it was deducted when these were With regard to the financial side paid in. Dividends were propor of the Bill he said that it included tionately reduced. The bookmak legislation on the form of bettingers' tax was one on winnings. If outside the law which was described the punter lost he paid no tax. If as taxable bets; that was to say the bookmaker had a good day the betting on a racecourse. That was Government got more than it he a form of betting which was legalis had not been so successful. ed by the Bill. It was more limit ed than the forms allowed by the law at present.

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The tax derivable from the tax- able bets at the Turf Club was fairly considerable. It was in con- sultation with that institution that the Bill was formed and they had no objection to it.

In regard to the yield it was not easily calculated, but he had some figures supplied by the Ceylon Turf Club from which it would appear that they collected last September about three lakhs of rupees, a simi-

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The Moral Aspect. With regard to the moral aspect of the question the object was to control the betting in such a man. ner as not to work evil on the peo. ple. He thought they should con- sider whether it was good for the State to be associated with betting. The interference was to prohibit the dangerous form of betting and the more hariuful form.,

It seemed to him that they had to consider three possible things in connection with the question, first-

lar amount in, 1029 and about 3ly, to leave it entirely alone and lakhs in 1927. Of course, the se cretary informed him that that was a very conservative estimate. They hoped that between 3 and 4 lakhs would be collected.

The tax to be collected would be 9 per cent. whether made at a totalisator or with an authorised bookmaker.

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