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APPENDIX. 



Power of jus- 

 tices may be 

 exercised 

 luider Avar- 

 rant. 



Penalties on 

 gaming 

 house keep- 

 ers, &c. 



whom the other players stake, play or bet ; and every such 

 house or place shall be deemed a common gaming" house, such 

 as is contrary to law and forbidden to be kept by the said act 

 of King Henry the Eighth, and by all other acts containing 

 any provision against unlawful games or gaming houses. 



3. And be it enacted, That in every case (except within 

 the metropolitan police district) in which the justices of peace 

 in every shire, and mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs and other head 

 officers within every city, town and borough within this realm, 

 now have by law authority to enter into any house, room or 

 place, where unlawfid games shall be suspected to be holden, 

 it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, upon complaint 

 made before him on oath that there is reason to suspect 

 any house, room or place to be kept or used as a common 

 gaming house, to give authority, by special warrant under his 

 hand, when in his discretion he shall think fit, to any con- 

 stable, to enter, with such assistance as may be found neces- 

 sary, into such house, room or place, in like manner as might 

 have been done by such justices, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs or 

 other head officers, and, if necessary, to use force for making 

 such entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and 

 to arrest, search and bring before a justice of peace all such 

 persons found therein as might have been arrested therein by 

 such justice of -peace had he been personally present ; and all 

 such persons shall be dealt with according to law, as if they 

 had been arrested in such house, room or place by the justice 

 before whom they shall be so brought ; and any such warrant 

 may be in the form given in the first schedule annexed to this 

 act. 



4. And be it enacted. That the owner or keeper of any 

 common gaming house, and every person having the care or 

 management thereof, and also every banker, croupier and 

 other person who shall act in any manner in conducting the 

 business of any common gaming house, shall, on conviction 

 thereof, by his own confession, or by the oath of o?ie or more 

 credible witnesses, before any two justices of the jjeace, beside 

 any penalty or punishment to which he may be liable under 

 the provisions of the said act of King Henry the Eighth, be 

 liable to forfeit and pay such penalty, 7iot more than one hun- 

 dred pounds, as shall be adjudged by the justices before whom 

 he shall be convicted, or, in the discretion of the justices be- 

 fore whom he shall be convicted, may be committed to the 

 house of correction, with or without hard labour, for any time 

 not more than six calendar months; and on nonpayment of 

 any penalty so adjudged, and of the reasonable costs and 

 charges attending the conviction, the same shall be levied by 

 distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender,^ by 

 warrant under the hand and seal of one of the convicting jus- 

 tices : Provided always, tluit notliing herein contained shall 



