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placing the unsuccessful gamblers in a position amounting to sui- 
cide. Parents, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, and not seldom, 
employers also, undergo great affliction, bringing through its con- 
sequence the greatest distress to the community at laree. 
4, That this method of gambling contains 37 signs or numbers, 
namely :—Unn Soo; Thye Peng; Kong Beng; Cheng Soon, Jit-San; 
Moh Lim; Seang Cheow; Hoay Kuan; Che Koe; Cheng Hoon; 
Cheam Khoay; Eng Seing; Sam Hoey; Kew Kuan; Guat Poh; Ban 
Kim; Khoon San; Kin Geok; Hup Hie; Beng Choo; Kung Soo; 
Kong Cheon, Cheng Lee; Hock Soone; Hive Lee; Pit Tek; Han 
Hoon; Thean Sin; Thean Liang; Cheng Guan; Guan Kwei; Guan 
Keat; Keat Pin; Phan Kwei; Im Hoey; Hup Tong; and Chee Tek. 
5. That your Memorialists would beg to call attention that 
“Wha Hoey” gambling isa game of fraud and imposition, it is 
not managed as other gambling games, with the “ Wha Hoey ” 
keepers it is always ‘“‘ Heads I win and Tails you lose.” By other 
games the person wishing to go in for a chance does so personally, 
but in “‘ Wha Hoey” agents are procured to act for him or her. 
‘Wha Hoey ”’ is in fact carried on by way of proxy; for example, 
a lady will send her servant or servants to stake for her, or the 
keeper sends his orderly secretly to the parties’ house to collect 
the moniesand numbersof tickets that the party may choose to hazard 
on. The parents, husbands, or employers being unaware of what 
is being done, and, if there is not ready cash, the party he or she 
secretly pawns jewels, and other paraphernalia and the proceeds 
therefrom with the hazard tickets are deposited to the keeper's 
urderly, if the party loses he or she never see any part of their 
stake again. 
6. That most of the Chinese servants employed by Europeans 
and Chinese families cause their employers any amount of anxiety 
and annoyance, for, when they receive money to purchase things 
for domestic purposes they squander it away upon “ Wha Hoey ” 
then, supply their employers with inferior and detrimental victuals. 
7. That this fraudulent system of ““ Wha Hoey” gambling is 
not in any way discouraged by the authorities in Penang, because 
as far as your Memorialists know they have no pewer by Law to 
do so. It is carried on in Institutions got up for the purpose, but 
here exist places where certain parties who cannot well attend the 
Institutions meet at some private place which is secured for the 
purpose, and the gambling gone on clandestinely undisturbed by 
the proper Officials. Whereas in Perak, Selangore, the Duteh and 
