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consecutive days, or for any two days in one week,, without withdrawing 

 just cause, of which, the magistrate before whom the complaint carriages from 

 is heard shall be the judge, shall be liable to a penalty of a ^^^^ beyond a 

 sum not exceeding Twenty shillings in resj)ect of every car- ^^abLe'to^™^ 

 riage for each day he shall so withdraw the same, and the penalty, 

 licence of such propri'etor shall be suspended or recalled and 

 taken away at the discretion of the said commissioners of 

 police : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for such pro- 

 prietor, upon giving ten days' notice to the commissioners of 

 police, to withdraw his carriage from hire. 



17. The limits of this act shall be deemed to be and to in- "The limits 

 elude every part of the metropolitan police district and the of this act'' 

 city of London ; and all provisions of any former act in force <i6*"i®"- 

 referring to hackney carriages licensed under the said act of 

 the first and second years of his late majesty, or to hackney 

 carriages kept, used, employed, or let to hire within the dis- 

 tance of five miles from the General Post Ofiice in the city of 

 London, or to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in 

 relation to such hackney carriages within the said distance, 

 shall from and after the passing of this act be deemed to refer 

 and apply to hackney carriages licensed under this act, or to 

 hackney carriages kept, used, employed, or let to hire within 

 the limits of this act, and to any act, matter, or thing com- 

 mitted or done in relation to hackney carriages within the 

 said limits. 



16 & 17 Vict. Cap. 119. 

 An Act for the Sup2)ressio7i of Betting Houses. 



"Whereas a kind of gaming has of late sprung up, tending 

 to the injury and demoralization of improvident persons, by 

 the opening of places called betting houses or offices, and the 

 receiving of money in advance by the owners or occupiers of 

 such houses or offices, or by other persons acting on their be- 

 half, on their promises to pay money on events of horse races 

 and the like contingencies : for the suppression thereof, be it 

 enacted, by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, 

 and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by 

 the authority of the same as follows : — 



1. No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, No house, «S:c. 

 kept or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper to be kejit f or 

 thereof, or any person using the same, or any person procured P^^'Pose ot 

 or employed by or acting for or on behalf of such owner, occupier bet- 

 occupier, or keeper, or person using the same, or of any ting with 

 person having the care or management or in any manner con- other persons, 

 ducting the Ijusiness thprenf, betting with persons resorting 



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