STATUTES. 493 



ritual and temporal, and commons, in the j)resent parliament 

 assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any per- 200;. penalty 

 son or persons shall, after the twenty-fourth day of June, one °^ ^^Y o^: 

 thousand seven hundred and thirty -nine, erect, set up, con- !f°^^ against 

 tinue or keep any office or place under the denomination of a 

 sale or sales of houses, land, advowsons, presentations to 

 livings, plate, jewels, shij^s, goods or other things by way of 

 lottery, or by lots, tickets, numbers or figures, cards or dice ; 

 or shall make, print, advertize or publish, or cause to be made, 

 printed, advertized or published, proposals or schemes for 

 advancing small sums of money by several persons, amounting 

 in the whole to large sums, to be divided among them by 

 chances of the prices in some public lottery or lotteries esta- 

 blished or allowed by act of parliament, or shall deliver out, 

 or cause or procure to be delivered out, tickets to the persons 

 advancing such sums, to entitle them to a share of the money 

 so advanced, according to such proposals or schemes ; or shall 

 expose to sale any houses, lands, advowsons, presentations to 

 livings, plate, jewels, ships or other goods by any game, 

 method or device Avhatsoever, depending upon or to be deter- 

 mined by any lot or drawing, whether it be out of a box or 

 wheel, or by cards or dice, or by any machine, engine or de- 

 vice of chance of any kind whatsoever ; such person or per- 

 sons, and every or either of them, shall, upon being convicted 

 thereof before any one justice of the peace for any county, 

 riding or division, or before the mayor or other justice or 

 justices of the peace for any city or town corporate, upon the 

 oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses 

 (which said oaths the said justices of the peace and mayor 

 are hereby authorized, empowered and required to admi- 

 nister), or upon the view of such justice or justices, or the 

 mayor, justice or justices for any city or town corporate, or 

 on the confession of the party or parties accused, shall forfeit 

 and lose the sum of Two hundred pounds, to be levied by dis- 

 tress and sale of the offender's goods, by warrant under the 

 hands and seals of one or more justice or justices of the peace 

 of such county, riding, division, city or town where the otfence 

 shall be committed ; which said forfeitures, when recovered, The same how 

 after deducting the reasonable charges of such prosecution, to be levied 

 shall go and be aj^plied, one-third thereof to the informer ^^^ applied, 

 and the remaining two-thirds to the use of the poor of the 

 parish where such offence shall be committed, excej^ting the 

 said two-thirds of such forfeitures which shall be incurred by 

 and recovered upon any person or persons within the city of 

 Bath, which said two-thirds shall go and be applied to and for 

 the use and benefit of the poor residing within the hospital or 

 infirmary lately erected for the use and benefit of poor persons 

 resorting to the said city for the benefit of the mineral waters, 

 after deducting the charges of conviction as aforesaid. 



