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GAMING HOUSES. 



Offences 

 against the 

 tenor of the 

 Licence. 



When Bil- 

 liard playing 

 is not al- 

 lowed. 



Constables 

 may visit 

 licensed 

 Houses. 



Justices may fix upon of not more tlian 10/. fgr every day 

 in which such Billiard table, &c. has been used ; or in the 

 Justices' discretion may be committed to the House of 

 Correction, with or without hard labour, for any term not 

 exceeding one calendar month. A power of distress is 

 given for non-payment of any penalty ; but no person 

 summarily convicted can be indicted for the same offence (r). 



Persons offending against the tenor of their Licences 

 are liable to the same penalties and punishments in the 

 case of a first, second or third offence as keepers of Inns, 

 Alehouses and Victualling Houses, under 9 Creo. 4, c. 61, 

 and all the provisions of that Act with respect to con- 

 victions, penalties, &c. are to apply to convictions for 

 offences against the tenor of the Licences under this Act, 

 and to the consequent proceedings (.s'). 



No keeper of any public Billiard table, &c., whether he 

 have a Victualler's Licence or not, is to allow any person 

 to play between one and eight in the morning of any day, 

 or at any time on Sundays, Christmas Day, Gfood Friday, 

 or any day appointed to be kept as a Public Fast or 

 Thanksgiving, and no Victualler is to allow any person to 

 play during the time his premises are not by law allowed 

 to be opened for the sale of liquors ; and during the 

 hours that play is prohibited, every licensed house and 

 every Billiard room in every licensed Victualler's must be 

 closed {t). 



All Constables and Officers of Police may enter any 

 public Billiard room, &c. when and so often as they 

 think fit, and the non-compliance with these regulations 

 is to be deemed an offence against the tenor of the keeper's 

 Licence (»). 



{>■) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 11, {t) Ibid. s. 



Appendix. («) 8 & 9 



(i) Ibid. s. 12. Eut see 35 & 3G Appendix. 

 Vict. c. 94, s. 75. 



13. 



Vict. 



c. 109, s. 14, 



