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otlier places for playing, and do permit persons therein to play 

 at cards, dice and otlier devices, for large sums of money, by 

 means whereof divers young and unwary persons and others 

 are drawn in to lose the greatest part, and sometimes all their 

 substance ; and it frequently happens they are thereby re- 

 duced to the utmost necessities, and betake themselves to 

 the most wicked courses, which end in their utter ruin : And 

 whereas a certain pernicious game called roulet, or roly-poly, 

 is daily practised, and the laws now in being have by expe- 

 rience been found ineffectual to put a stop to such pernicious 

 practices:" For remedy whereof may it please your majesty 

 that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most 

 excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present 

 parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. That No person 

 from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand shall keep a 

 seven hundred and forty-five, no person or persons, of what Pj^^°*r ^°'-' 

 condition soever, shall keep any house, room or place for poiy^^f oth^r 

 playing, or permit or suffer any person or persons whatsoever, o-ame with, 

 within any such house, room or place, to play at the said game cards or dice, 

 of roulet, otherwise roly-poty, or at any other game, with cards ^mder penal- 

 or dice, already prohibited by the laws of this realm ; and in ^^^ "^ ^ 

 case any person or persons whatsoever shall keep any such • , • - . 

 house, room or place for playing, or permit or suft'er any 

 person or persons as aforesaid to x>lay at the said game of 

 roulet, otherwise roly-poly, or at any other game, with cards 

 or dice already prohibited by law, such person or persons so 

 offending shall incur the pains and penalties, and be liable to 

 such prosecution as is directed in and by an act made in the 

 twelfth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled 

 " An Act for the more effectual preventing excessive and de- 

 ceitful Gaming." 



2. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid. Persons play- 

 That if any person or persons whatsoever shall after the said jng shall 

 twenty-fourth day of June, one- thousand seven hundred and ^^°'^.^' *^^ P^" 

 forty-five, play at the said game of roulet, otherwise roly-poly, q.^^ 2 c 28 

 or at any game or games with cards or dice, already pro- 

 hibited by law, every such person or persons so offending 

 shall also incur the pains and penalties, and be liable to such 

 prosecution, as is directed in and by an act made in the 

 twelfth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled 

 " An Act for the more effectual preventing excessive and de- 

 ceitful Gaming." 



4. And for the more easy conviction of persons off'ending On informa- 

 against this or any other former act, for preventing excessive tion for any 

 and deceitful gaming, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, °^^^^^ , . 

 That it shall and may be lawful to and for such person or ^^^^^^, ^2^^ 

 persons who have jm-isdiction to hear and determine infor- q^o. 2, c. 28^ 

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