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knoTvingly allow the consumption of exciseable liquors therein by the 

 persons resorting thereto, and do not knowingly suffer any unlawful 

 games therein, and do not knowingly suffer persons of notoriously bad 

 character to assemble and meet together therein, and do not open the said 

 house for play or allow any f>lay therein after one and before eight of the 

 clock in the morning, or keep it open or allow any play therein on Sun- 

 days, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, or on any day appointed for a 

 public fast or thanksgiving, but do maintain good order and rule therein ; 



and this licence shall continue in force from the — ^- day of next 



until the day of then next following, and no longer. 



Given under our hands and seals on the day and at the place first 

 written. 



9 & 10 Vict. Cap. 48. 



A7i Act for legalizing Art Unions. 



AVliereas certain voluntary associations have been and may 

 hereafter he formed in various parts of the United Kingdom, 

 under the name of Art Unions, for the i^urchase of paintings, 

 drawings, or other works of art, to be afterwards allotted and 

 distributed, by chance or otherwise, among the several mem- 

 bers, subscribers or contributors forming part of such associa- 

 tions, or for raising sums of money by subscription or contri- 

 bution, to be allotted and distributed, by chance or otherwise, 

 as prizes, amongst the members, subscribers, or contributors 

 forming part of such associations, on the condition, never- 

 theless that such sums of money so allotted and distributed 

 be expended solely and entirely in the purchase of paint- 

 ings, drawings or other works of art, and whereas such allot- 

 ment and distribution of paintings, drawings, or other works 

 of art, or of sums of money for their piu'chase, and the 

 proceedings taken to carry the same into effect, may be deemed 

 and taken to come within the provisions of the several acts 

 of parliament passed for the prevention of lotteries, littlegoes, 

 and unlawful games, whereby the members, subscribers, or 

 contributors of such associations as aforesaid, or persons acting 

 under their authority or on their behalf, may be liable or sub- 

 jected to certain pains and penalties imposed by law on persons 

 concerned in lotteries, littlegoes, and unlawful games : and 

 whereas it is expedient that all members of and subscribers 

 and contributors to such voluntary associations as aforesaid, 

 and all persons acting under their authority or on their behalf, 

 so long only as their proceedings are carried on in good faith 

 for the encouragement of the fine arts, shall be discharged and 

 protected from any pains and penalties to which they may 

 have rendered themselves liable, or may hereafter render 

 themselves liable, by reason of any such their proceedings as 

 aforesaid : be it enacted by the queen's most excellent ma- 

 jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual 



