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APPENDIX, 



Penalties for 

 offences 

 against tenor 

 of licences. 



9Geo.4, c. 61. 



When billiard 

 playing shall 

 not be al- 

 lowed. 



more than Ten pounds for every day on wliich such billiard 

 table, bagatelle board, or instrument as aforesaid shall be used, 

 as shall be adjudged by the magistrate or justices before 

 whom he shall be convicted, or, in the discretion of the ma- 

 gistrate or justices, may be committed to the house of correc- 

 tion, with or without hard labour, for any time not more than 

 one calendar month ; and on nonpayment of any penalty so 

 adjudged, and of the reasonable costs and charges of the con- 

 viction, the same shall be levied by distress and sale of the 

 goods and chattels of the oif ender, by warrant under the hand 

 and seal of the magistrate or one of the convicting justices; 

 but no person who shall have been summarily convicted of 

 any such offence shall be liable to be further proceeded 

 against by indictment for the same offence. 



12. And be it enacted, That every person licensed under 

 this act, who shall be convicted before a police magistrate or 

 two justices acting in and for the division or place in which 

 shall be situated the house kept or theretofore kept by such 

 person of any offence against the tenor of the licence to him 

 granted, shall be liable to the same penalties and punish- 

 ments in the case of a first, second or third offence respec- 

 tively to which persons licensed tmder an act passed in the 

 ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled 

 "An Act to regulate the granting of Licences to Keepers of 

 Inns, Alehouses, and Yictualling Houses in England," are 

 respectively liable on conviction of a first, second or third 

 offence, against the tenor of the licence granted to them 

 imder the last-recital act, or as near thereunto as the nature 

 of the case wiU allow; and all the provisions of the last- 

 recited act with respect to convictions and penalties for 

 offences against the last-recited act, and the proceedings for 

 enforcing the same, and to the expenses of prosecution and 

 penalties on witnesses for not attending and the recovery 

 and application of penalties, and the proceedings on appeals 

 against convictions, and the award of costs on appeals, and 

 in actions against justices, constables or other persons, for 

 any thing done in the execution of the last-recited act, shall 

 be deemed to apply, so far as they are applicable, to convic- 

 tions for offences against the tenor of the licences granted 

 imder this act, and to the proceedings consequent thereupon 

 or connected therewith, as if they were herein re-enacted. 



13. And be it enacted. That every person keeping any 

 public billiard table or bagetelle board, or instrument used 

 in any game of the like kind, whether he be the holder of a 

 victualler's licence or licensed under this act, who shall allow 

 any .person to play at such table, board or instrument, after 

 one and before eight of the clock in the morning of any day, 

 or at any time on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, 

 or any day appointed to be kept as a public fast or thanks- 



