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APPENDIX. 



Betting 

 houses to be 

 gaming 

 houses within 

 8 & 9 Vict. 

 c. 109. 



Penalty on 

 owner or 

 occupier of 

 betting house. 



Penalty on 

 persons re- 

 ceiving money 

 on condition 

 of paying 

 money on 

 event of any 

 bet. 



tliereto ; or for tlie purpose of any money or valuable thing 

 being received by or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper, 

 or person as aforesaid as or for the consideration for any 

 assurance, undertaking, promise or agreement, exjiress or 

 implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing, 

 on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race, 

 or other race, fight, game, sport or exercise, or as or for the 

 consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other 

 person of any money or valuable thing, on any such event or 

 contingency as aforesaid ; and every house, office, room, or 

 other place opened, kept, or used for the purposes aforesaid, 

 or any of them, is hereby declared to be a common nuisance 

 and contrary to law. 



2. Every house, room, office or place opened, kept or used 

 for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, shall be taken and 

 deemed to be a common gaming house within the meaning of 

 an act of the session holden in the eighth and ninth years of 

 her majesty, chapter one hundred and nine, " to amend the 

 " law concerning games and wagers." 



3. Any person who, being the owner or occupier of any 

 house, office, room, or other place, or a person using the same, 

 shall open, keep, or use the same for the purposes hereinbe- 

 fore mentioned, or either of them; and any person who, being 

 the owner or occupier of any house, room, office, or other 

 place, shall knowingly and wilfully permit the same to be 

 opened, kept or used by any other person for the purposes 

 aforesaid, or either of them ; and any person having the care 

 or management of or in any manner assisting in conducting 

 the business of any house, office, room or place opened, kept 

 or used for the purposes aforesaid, or either of them, shall, 

 on summary conviction thereof before any two justices of the 

 peace, be liable to forfeit and pay such penalty, not exceeding 

 One hundred j^oiinds, as shall be adjudged by such justices, and 

 may be further adjudged by such justices to pay such costs 

 attending such conviction as to the said justices shall seem 

 reasonable ; and on the nonpayment of such penalty and 

 costs, or in the first instance, if to the said justices it shall 

 seem fit, may be committed to the common gaol or house of 

 correction, with or without hard labour, for any time not ex- 

 ceeding Six calendar months. 



4. Any person,, being the owner or occupier of any house, 

 office, room or place opened, kejit or used for the purposes 

 aforesaid, or either of them, or any person acting for or on 

 behalf of any such owner or occupier, or any person having 

 the care or management or in any manner assisting in con- 

 ducting the business thereof, who shall receive, directly or 

 indirectly, any money or valuable thing as a dejiosit on any 

 bet, on condition of paying any sum of money or other valuable 

 thing on the happening of any event or contingency of or re- 



