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games aforesaid, or for the reimbursing or repaying any money 

 knowingly lent or advanced for such gaming or betting as afore- 

 said, or lent or advanced at the time and place of such p)lay to 

 any person or persons so gaming or betting as aforesaid, or that 

 should, during such play, so play or bet, should be utterly void, 

 frustrate, and of none effect, to all intents and purposes what- 

 soever ; and that where such mortgages, securities, or other 

 conveyances should be of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, 

 or should be such as should encumber or affect the same, such 

 mortgages, securities, or other conveyances should enure and 

 be to and for the sole use and benefit of and should devolve 

 upon such person or persons as should or might have or be 

 entitled to such lands or hereditaments in case the said 

 grantor or grantors thereof, or the person or persons so incum- 

 bering the same, had been natiu-ally dead, and as if such 

 mortgages, securities, or other conveyances had been made to 

 such person or persons so to be entitled after the decease of 

 the person or persons so encumbering the same ; and that all 

 grants or conveyances to be made for the preventing of such 

 lands, tenements, or hereditaments from coming to or de- 

 volving upon such person or persons thereby intended to 

 enjoy the same as aforesaid should be deemed fraudulent and 

 void and of none effect, to all intents and purposes what- 

 soever : and whereas by an act passed in the twelfth year of 12 Ann. st. 2, 

 the reign of her said late majesty Queen Anne, intituled "An °- 1^- 

 Act to reduce the E,ate of Interest without any prejudice to 

 Parliamentary Securities," it was enacted, that all bonds, con- 

 tracts, and assurances whatsoever made after the twenty-ninth 

 day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, 

 for payment of any principal or money to be lent or cove- 

 nanted to be performed upon or for any usury, whereupon or 

 whereby there should be reserved or taken above the rate of 

 five pounds in the hundred, as therein mentioned, should be 

 utterly void : and whereas by an act passed in the parliament 5 Geo. 2, (I.) 

 of Ireland in the fifth year of the reign of his late majesty 

 King George the Second, intituled "An Act for reducing the 

 Interest of Money to Six per Cent.," it was enacted, that all 

 bonds, contracts and assurances whatsoever made after the 

 first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, 

 for payment of any principal or money to be lent or covenant 

 to be perforaied upon or for any loan, whereupon or whereby 

 there should be taken or reserved above the rate of six pounds 

 in the hundred, shoidd be utterly void : and whereas by an 58 Geo. 3 

 act passed in the fifty-eighth year of the reign of his late c. 93. 

 majesty King Greorge the Third, intituled "An Act to afford 

 Eelief to the bond fide Holders of negotiable Securities with- 

 out Notice that they were given for a usurious Consideration," 

 it was enacted, that no bill of exchange or promissory note 

 that should be drawn or made after the passing of that act 



