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giving; and every person liolding- a victualler's licence who 

 shall allow any person to play at such table, board or instru- 

 ment, kept on the premises specified in such victualler's 

 licence at any time when such premises are not by law allowed 

 to be open for the sale of wine, spirits or beer, or other fer- 

 mented or distilled liquors, shall be liable to the penalties 

 herein provided in the case of persons keeping such public 

 billiard table, bagatelle board or instrument as aforesaid for 

 public use without licence ; and during those times when play 

 at such table, board or instrument, is not allowed by this act, 

 every house licensed under this act, and every billiard room 

 in every house specified in any victualler's licence, shall be 

 closed, and the keeping of the same open, or allowing any 

 person to play therein or thereat, at any of the times or on 

 any of the days during which such play is not allowed by this 

 act, shall be deemed in each case an offence against the tenor 

 of the licence of the person so offending. 



14. And be it enacted. That it shall be lawful for all con- Empowering- 

 stables and officers of police to enter into any house, room or constables to 

 place where any public table or board is kept for playing at 7^ icense 

 billiards, bagatelle or any game of the like kind, when and 



so often as such constables and ofiicers shall think proper ; 

 and every person licensed under the said act of the ninth year 

 of the reign of King Gleorge the Fourth, or imder this act, 

 who shall refuse to admit or who shall not admit any such 

 constable or officer of police into such house, room or place 

 shall, on conviction thereof before a police magistrate or any 

 two justices of the peace, be deemed guilty of an offence 

 against the tenor of his licence, whether the same be a bil- 

 liard licence or a victualler's licence, and in the case of a 

 first, second, third or subsequent offence shall be punished 

 accordingly. 



15. And be it enacted, That an act passed in the sixteenth Repeal of 16 

 year of the reign of King Charles the Second, and an act ^''^^- -> ^- "'■ 

 passed by the parliament of Ireland in the tenth year of the 10 Will. 3, (I.) 

 reign of King William the Third, each of such acts being 

 cntituled "An Act against deceitful, disorderly and excessive 

 Gaming," and so much of an act passed in the ninth year of 9 Anne, c. H. 

 the reign of Queen Anne, and of an act passed by the parlia- 

 ment of Ireland in the eleventh year of the same reign, each 11 Anne, (I.) 

 of such acts being intituled ''' An Act for the better preventing 



of excessive and deceitful Gaming," as was not altered by an 



act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty, 5 & 6 Will. 4, 



intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to Securities °- ^^> 



given for Considerations arising out of gaming, usurious and 



certain other illegal Transactions," and so much of an act 



passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of King George 



the Second, intituled ' ' An Act to explain, amend and make and part of 



more effectual the Laws in being to prevent excespive and ^^ ^^°- -» 



„ c. 34. 



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