BETTIxXG HOUSES. 4o3 



Any Owner or Occupier, or person unmg any House, Penalty for 

 &c. or other Place, opening, keeping or using the same ^^ing them 

 for any of the above-mentioned purposes, or being Owner poseT^ ^"^" 

 or Occupier wilfully permitting the same to be opened, 

 kept or used for any such purposes, or any person managing 

 or assisting in conducting the business of any Houses, 

 &c. or Place opened, kept or used for any such jiurposes, 

 is on summary conviction before two Justices of the 

 Peace {p) liable to a penalty not exceeding 100/., and 

 payment of costs, or to imprisonment not exceeding six 

 calendar months {q). 



Any Owner or Occupier, or person acting on his behalf, Penalty for 

 or managing or assisting in conducting the business of any receiving 

 House, &c. or Place opened, kept or used for any of the ^^"^^^i ^*^- 



, ' . Tin- on certain 



above-mentioned purposes, who shall receive any money or conditions, 

 valuable thing as a Deposit on any Bet on condition of 

 paying any money or valuable thing, on the happening of 

 any event " relating to a Horse Race, or any other Race, 

 or any Fight, Game, Sport or Exercise," or as or for the 

 consideration for any agreement, &c. to pay or give any 

 money or valuable thing on any such event, and any jierson 

 giving any acknowledgment, security, &c. on the receipt of 

 any money or valuable thing so paid or given, purporting 

 or intended to entitle the bearer or any other person to 

 receive any monies or valuable thing on the happening of 

 any such event, is on summary conviction before two 

 Justices of the Peace {j)) liable to a Penalty not exceeding 

 50/., and payment of costs, or to imprisonment not exceed- 

 ing three calendar months (r). 



Any money or valuable thing received by any such person Money, &c. 

 as a Deposit on any Bet, or as or for the consideration for ^° received 

 any such agreement, &c. is to be deemed to have been re- ^^ercd from 

 ceived for the use of the person from whom it was received, the holder. 

 and may be recovered with full costs in any Court of com- 

 petent Jurisdiction {s). 



The Act is not to extend to the Holder of any " Stakes Act does not 

 or Deposit to be paid to the "Winner of any Race or lawful ^^^^^ .*° 

 Sport, Grame or Exercise," or to be paid " to the Owner of j^^ce &c. 

 any Horse engaged in any Race" (/) ; as where, for in- 

 stance, the Owner of the Second Horse is entitled to receive 

 back his Stake. 



Any person exhibiting or publishing, or causing to be Penalty for 



[p) Or a Police Magistrate within Appendix, 



the Metropolitan Police District, {r) Ibid. s. 4. 



2 & 3 Vict. 0. 71, 8. U. (.5) Ibid. s. 5. 



(■/) 16 & 17 Vict. c. 110, s. 3, {t) Ibid. s. 6. 



