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or contingency as is mentioned in the Principal Act, or 

 will make on behalf of any other person any such Bet or 

 Wager as is mentioned in the Principal Act ; or (2) with 

 intent to induce any person to apply to any house, office, 

 room or place, or to any person, with the view of obtaining 

 information or advice for the purpose of any such Bet or 

 Wager, or with respect to any such event or contingency as 

 is mentioned in the Princii^al Act ; or (3) inviting any per- 

 son to make or take any share in, or in connexion with, 

 any such bet or wager ; every person sending, exhibiting 

 or publishing, or causing the same to be sent, exhibited or 

 published, shall be subject to the penalties provided in the 

 seventh section of the Principal Act with respect to offences 

 under that section (b). 



The 42 & 43 Vict. c. 18, after reciting that " the fre- Racecourses 

 quency of Horse Races in the immediate neighbourhood Licensing 

 of the Metropolis is productive of much mischief and ° ' ' " 

 inconvenience, and the holding of such Paces in thickly- 

 populated places near the Metropolis is calculated to cause, 

 and does in fact cause, annoyance and injury to persons 

 resident near to places where such Paces are held ;" and 

 (sect. 1) enacting that " a Horse Pace within the meaning 

 of this Act shall mean any Pace in which any Horse, 

 Mare or Gelding shall run, or be made to run, in competi- 

 tion with any other Horse, Mare or Gelding, or against 

 Time, for any prize of what nature or kind soever, or for 

 any Bet or Wager made or to be made in respect of any 

 such Horse, Mare or Gelding, or the riders thereof, and at 

 "which more than twenty persons shall be present," pro- 

 ceeds (sect. 2) to declare all Horse Paces unlawful within 

 ten miles of Charing Cross unless licensed pursuant to the 

 provisions contained in sects. 3 and 4 of the Act. The 

 Act also imposes certain penalties on persons convicted of 

 taking part in unlicensed Horse Paces, and on the owners 

 and occupiers of the ground where the unlicensed Horse 

 Paces take place ; and (sect. 7) enacts that every Horse 

 Pace held or taking place in contravention of the provi- 

 sions of the Act shall be deemed to be a nuisance, and 

 shall be liable accordingly (c). 



{b) 37 Vict. c. 15, Appendix. (r) 42 & 43 Vict. c. 18, Appendix. 



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