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prevent any proceeding Ly indictment against the owner or 

 keeper or other person having the care or management of a 

 common gaming house ; hut no person who shall have been 

 summarily convicted of any such offence shall be liable to be 

 proceeded against by indictment for the same offence. 



5. And be it enacted, That it shall not be necessary, in Proof of 

 support of any information for gaming in, or sufl'ering any gaming for 

 games or gaming in, or for keeping or using, or being con- ^i^oney, &c. 

 cerned in the management or conduct of a conniion gaming P^* ^^ecessary 

 house, to_ prove that any person found playing at any game informations 

 was playing for any money, wager or stake. for gamin o-. 



6. And be it enacted. That if any superintendent belonging Commission- 

 to the metropolitan police force shall report in writing to the ers of police 

 commissioners of police of the metropolis that there are good ^^Y autlio- 

 grounds for believing, and that he does believe, that any ^?^^ super- 

 house, room or place within the meirojjoliian police district {I), consi*^bl t 

 is kept or used as a common gaming house, it shall be lawful enter o-amino- 

 for either of the said commissioners, by order in writing, to houses' and ° 

 authorize the superintendent to enter any such house, room ^^^^'^ ^11 ^^- 

 or place, with such constables as shall be directed by the ^*™™ents of 

 commissioner to accompany him, and, if necessary, to use f^keTiSo^^ 

 force for the purpose of efl'ecting such entry, whether by break- custody all 

 ing oj)en doors or otherwise, and to take into custody all i)er- persons found 

 sons who shall be found therein, and to seize all tables and therein, 

 instruments of gaming found in such house or premises, and 



also to seize all monies and securities for money found 

 therein. 



7. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the police Police super- 

 superintendent making such entry as aforesaid in obedience intendent may 

 to any such order of one of the commissioners of police of the ^^^^'^^^ for in- 

 metropolis, with the assistance of any constable or constables ^*^^'"™^^^*^ o* 

 accompanying him, to search all parts of the house, room or ° "' 

 place which he shall have so entered, where he shall suspect 



that tables or instrimients of gaming are concealed, and all 

 persons whom he shall find therein, and to seize all tables and 

 instruments of gaming Avhich he shall so find. 



8. And be it enacted. That where any cards, dice, balls, -WTiat shall 

 counters, tables or other instruments of gaming used in play- be deemed 

 ing any unlawful game shall be found in any house, room or evidence of 

 place, suspected to be used as a common gaming house, and S^^'^^S- 

 entered under a warrant or order issued under the provisions 



of this act, or about the person of any of those who shall be 

 found therein, it shall be evidence, until the contrary be made 

 to appear, that such house, room or place, is used as a com- 

 mon gaming house, and that the persons found in the room or 

 place where such tables or instruments of gaming shall have 

 been found were playing therein, although no play was 



ij) See 2 & 3 Vict. c. A, s. 48. 



