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APPENDIX. 



Indemnity of 

 ■witnesses. 



Justices may- 

 grant billiard 

 licences at 

 licensine: 



actually going on in tlie presence of the superintendent or 

 constable entering the same, under a warrant or order issued 

 under the pi^ovisions of this act, or in the presence of those 

 persons by whom he shall be accompanied as aforesaid ; and 

 it shall be lawful for the police magistrate or justices before 

 whom any person shall be taken by virtue of the warrant or 

 order to direct all such tables and instruments of gaming to 

 be forthwith destroyed. 



9. And for the more effectual j)rosecution of the keepers of 

 common gaming houses, be it enacted, That every person who 

 shall have been concerned in any unlawful gaming, and who 

 shall be examined as a witness by or before any police magis- 

 trate or justice of the peace, or on the trial of any indictment 

 or information against the owner or keej^er or other person 

 having the care or management of any common gaminghouse, 

 touching such unlawful gaming, and who upon such exami- 

 nation shall make true and faithful discovery to the best of 

 his or her knowledge of all things as to which he or she shall 

 be so examined, and shall thereupon receive from the magis- 

 trate or justice of the peace or judge of the court by or before 

 whom he or she shall be so examined a certificate in writing 

 to that effect, shall be freed from all criminal prosecutions, 

 and from all forfeitures, punishments and disabilities, to which 

 he or she may have become liable for any thing done before 

 that time in respect of such unlawful gaming. 



10. And be it enacted, That the justices in every division, 

 district and place in England, for which a special session of 

 the justices of the peace (called the general annual licensing 

 meeting) is holden annually for granting licences to persons 

 keeping or being about to keep inns, alehouses and victualling 

 houses, to sell exciseable licpiors by retail, to be drunk or con- 

 sumed on the premises therein specified, shall have authority 

 at such general annual licensing meeting, or at any adjourn- 

 ment thereof, to grant billiard licences to such persons as the 

 said justices shall in their discretion deem fit and proper to 

 keep public billiard tables and bagatelle boards, or instru- 

 ments used in any game of the like kind, and at the special 

 sessions holden for transferring licences to keep inns shall 

 have authority to transfer such billiard licences to such other 

 persons as they in their discretion shall deem fit and proper 

 to continue to hold the same, and who in each case shall be 

 required to give the like notice of their intention to aj)ply for 

 such billiard licence, and entitled to receive the like notice of 

 the licensing daj's, as is required in the case of persons intend- 

 ing to apply for a licence or the transfer of a licence to sell 

 exciseable liquors by retail to be drunk or consumed on the 

 premises, or as near thereto as the case will allow ; and every 

 such billiard licence shall be in the form given in the third 

 schedule annexed to this act, and shall continue in force in 



