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the counties of Middlesex and Surrey from tlie fifth day of 

 April, and elsewhere from the tenth day of October, after the 

 granting thereof, for one whole year thence respectively next 

 ensuing, and no longer ; and the clerk of the justices shall be 

 entitled to demand and receive from every person licensed 

 under this act, for the petty constable or other peace officer 

 for serving notices and other services rec^uired of him, the sum. 

 of One shilling, and for the clerk of the justices, for the 

 licence, the sum of Five shillings ; and every clerk who shall 

 demand or receive from any person for such fees more than 

 the said sums, being together Six shillings, shall for every 

 such offence, on conviction before one justice, forfeit and pay 

 the sum of Five pounds. 



11. And be it enacted, That after the fifth day of Ajoril, in Places kept 

 the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the for public 

 counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and elsewhere after the J*^^|^'^'',*^ tables 

 tenth day of October next after the passing of this act, every ° ® cense . 

 house (m), room, or place kept for public billiard pla;^dng, or 

 where a public billiard table or bagatelle board, or instrument 

 used in any game of the like kind is kept, at which persons 

 are admitted to play, except in houses or premises specified 

 in any licence granted under an act passed in the ninth year 

 of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to 9 Geo. 4, c. 61. 

 regulate the granting of Licences to Kee^^ers of Inns, Ale- 

 houses, and Victualling Houses in England," hereinafter 

 called a Victualler's Licence, shall be licensed under this 

 act ; and after the said fifth day of April in Middlesex and Notice that 

 Surrey, and elsewhere after the said tenth day of October, such places 

 every person keeping any such public billiard table or baga- ^^^ bilUard 

 telle board, or instrument used in any game of the like kind to be put up. 

 for public use, without being duly licensed so to do, and not 

 holding a victualler's licence for the house or premises where 

 such billiard table, bagatelle board, or other instrument as 

 aforesaid is kept or used, and also every person licensed 

 under this act who shall not during the continuance of such 

 billiard licence put and keep up the words "Licensed for 

 Billiards," legibly painted in some conspicuous place near 

 the door and on the outside of the house specified in the 

 licence, shall be liable to be proceeded against as the keeper 

 of a common gaming house, and, beside any penalty or 

 punishment to which he may be liable if convicted of keeping 

 a common gaming house, shall, on conviction of keeping such 

 unlicensed billiard table, bagatelle board, or other instrument 

 as aforesaid, by his own confession, or by the oath of one or 

 more credible witnesses before any police magistrate or any 

 two justices of the peace, be liable to pay such penalty, not 



()h) As to rating a House containing a Billiard Table, see Part 3, 

 Chap. 5. 



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