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ArPENDIX. 



Under penal- 

 ties of 12 

 Geo. 2, c. 28. 



Double costs. 



other games now played within tlie backgammon tables only 

 excepted) are and shall be deemed to be games or lotteries by 

 dice, within the intent and meaning of the said in part recited 

 act ; and all and every person and persons who shall set up, 

 maintain or keep any office, table or place (save and except 

 as in the said in part recited act is provided and declared), 

 for the said game of passage, or for any other such game or 

 games as aforesaid (backgammon and the other games now 

 plaj'ed with the backgammon tables only excepted), shall 

 severally forfeit, be subject and liable to, all and every the 

 penalties and forfeitures in and by the said in part recited act 

 inflicted upon any person or persons who shall erect, set up, 

 continue or keep any of the games or lotteries in the said in 

 part recited act mentioned ; and all and every person or persons 

 who shall play, set at stake or adventure at the said game of 

 passage, or at any such other game as aforesaid (backgam- 

 mon and the other games now played with the backgammon 

 tables only excepted), save and except as in the said in part 

 recited act is provided and declared, he and they respectively 

 shall severally forfeit, be subject and liable to all and every 

 the penalties and forfeitures in and by the said in part recited 

 act inflicted upon any person or persons who shall pla}', set 

 at stake or adventure at any of the said games in the said in 

 part recited act mentioned ; and all and every such offenders 

 respectively shall be prosecuted and convicted, and the 

 several penalties and forfeitures shall be sued for and re- 

 covered and disposed of in like manner, and to such uses, as 

 the several penalties and forfeitures in either of such cases 

 are by the said in part recited act directed to be sued for and 

 recovered, and disposed of. 



10. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, 

 That in any action, bill, plaint or information, to be brought 

 or commenced by virtue of this act, no essoin, j)rotection, 

 wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be allowed ; 

 [and that over and above the penalties and forfeitures to be 

 recovered by virtue of this act, the plaintiff' or informer shall 

 recover his or her double costs] («). 



18 Geo. II. Cap. 34. 

 An Act to explain, amend, and maJ^e more effectual the Laws in 

 being, to prevent excessive and deceitful Gayning ; and to re- 

 strain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse Races. 

 "Whereas notwithstanding the many good and wholesome 

 laws now in being for j^reventing excessive and deceitful 

 gaming, many persons of ill fame and rejmtation, who have 

 no visible means of subsistence, do keep houses, rooms, and 



{f() Repealed, 5 ,S: G Vict. o. 97. s. 2. 



