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GAMING HOUSES. 



In the Me- 

 tropolitan 

 District. 



Penalties on 



Gramiug 



House 



Keepers 



under 



8 & 9 Vict. 



c. 109. 



searcli aud bring before a Justice of the Peace both " the 

 keepers and the persons resorting and playing there" (/), 

 to be dealt with according to law {in). 



Within the Metropolitan District, if any Superin- 

 tendent belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force report 

 in writing to the Commissioners of Police of the Metro- 

 polis that there are good grounds for belief, and that he 

 believes that a house, room or place within the Metropolitan 

 Police District is kept or used as a common Grambling 

 Plouse ; either of these Commissioners, by theii* order in 

 writing, may authorize the Superintendent to make an 

 entry, with such Constables as the Commissioner may direct 

 to accompany him, and if necessary to use force to effect 

 such entry, either by breaking open the doors or otherwise, 

 and to take into custody all persons there found, and to 

 seize all Tables and Instruments of Graming, and all 

 Monies and Securities for money found in such house or 

 premises (»). He may also search all parts of the house or 

 premises where he shall suspect that Tables or Instruments 

 of Graming are concealed, as well as all persons there found, 

 and seize all Tables and Instruments of Graming he may 

 happen to find (o). 



Under 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, the owner or keeper, and 

 every person having the care or management of such 

 Graming House, and also every banker, croupier and other 

 person, in any manner conducting the business of it, on 

 conviction, either by his own confession or by the oath of 

 a credible witness before any two Justices of the Peace, 

 besides being liable, under 3'i Hen. 8, c. 9, to pay a fine of 

 forty shillings for each day (p), and to be imprisoned till 

 he shall have found sureties to abstain from such practices 

 for the future (q), is liable to such an additional penalty of 

 not more than 100/. as might be adjudged by the Justices 

 before whom he may be convicted ; or, in the discretion of 

 such Justices, he may be committed for not more than six 

 calendar months to the House of Correction, with or with- 

 out hard labour. On non-paj^ment of any penalty so ad- 

 judged, and of the reasonable costs and charges attending 

 the conviction, one of the convicting Justices may, by his 

 warrant, authorize the same to be levied by distress and 

 sale of the goods and chattels of the offender (/■). 



(0 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 3, Ap- 

 pendix. See post, p. 4G2. 

 (m) 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, s. 14. 

 {») 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 6. 



(o) Ibid. s. 7. 

 (p) 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, s. 11. 

 (?) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 4. 

 ()•) Ibid. See post, p. 4C2. 



