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or any other act now in being against excessive or deceitful 

 gaming, any law, usage or custom to the contrary in anywise 

 notwithstanding. 



5 Geo. IV. Cap. 83. 



An Act for the Punishment of idle and disorderly Persons, and 

 Rogues and J'agabonds, iii that part of Great Britain 

 called England. 



Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, That every person com- Persons com- 

 mitting any of the offences hereinbefore mentioned, after mitting cer- 



havine: been convicted as an idle and disorderly person ; every tarn ottences 



° . -,. p-xiiiiii • herein men- 



person pretending or proiessing to tell fortunes, or using any ^j^^g^j ^^ -^^ 



subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deemed 



deceive and impose on any of his majesty's subjects; every rogues and 



person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or out- vagabonds. 



house, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the 



open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon, not having 



any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good 



account of himself or herself ; every person wilfully exposing 



to view in any street, road, highway or public place any 



obscene print, picture or other indecent exhibition ; every 



person wilfully, openly, lewdly and obscenely exposing his 



person in any street, road or jDublic highway, or in the view 



thereof, or in any place of public resort, with intent to insult 



any female ; every person wandering abroad and endeavouring 



by the exposure of wounds or deformities to obtain or gather 



alms ; every person going about as a gatherer or collector of 



alms, or endeavouring to procure charitable contributions of 



any nature or kind, under any false or fraudulent pretence ; 



every person running away and leaving his wife, or his or her 



child or children, chargeable, or whereby she or they or any 



of them shall become chargeable, to any parish, township or 



place ; every person j^laying or betting in any street, road, 



highicay or other open and public j^lace, at or loith any table or 



instrument of gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance; 



every person having in his or her custody or possession any 



picklock key, crow, jack, bit or other implement, with intent 



feloniously to break into any dwellinghouse, warehouse, 



coachhouse, stable or outbuilding, or being armed with any 



gun, pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive 



weapon, or having upon him or her any instrument, with 



intent to commit any felonious act ; every person being found 



in or upon any dwellinghouse, warehouse, coachhouse, stable 



or outhouse, or in any enclosed yard, garden or area, for any 



unlawful purpose ; every suspected person or reputed thief, 



frequenting any river, canal or navigable stream, dock or 



basin, or any quay, wharf or warehouse near or adjoining 



