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force for making such, entry, whether by breaking open doors, 

 or othervrise, and to arrest, search, and bring before a justice 

 of the peace all such persons found therein, and to seize all 

 lists, cards, or other documents relating to racing or betting 

 found in such house or premises ; and any such warrant may 

 be according to the form given in the first schedule annexed 

 to the before-mentioned act "to amend the law concerning 

 games and wagers." 



12. If any superintendent belonging to the metropolitan Commissioner 

 police force shall report in writing to the commissioners of of police may- 

 police of the metropolis that there are good grounds for be- authorize 

 lievino: and that he does believe that any house, office, room, superintend- 



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or place within the metropolitan police district is kept or used to enter and 



as a betting house or office, contrary to this act, it shall be search sus- 



lawful for either of the said commissioners by order in writing pected houses. 



to authorize the superintendent to enter any such house, office, 



room, or place, with such constables as shall be directed by 



the commissioners to accompany him, and, if necessary, to 



use force for the purpose of effecting such entry, whether by 



breaking open doors or otherwise, and to take into custody all 



persons who shall be found therein, and to seize all lists, cards, 



or other documents relating to racing or betting found in 



such house or premises. 



13. Any person who shall be summarily convicted under Appeal to 

 this act may appeal to the next general or quarter session of quarter ses- 

 the peace to be holden for the county or place wherein the ^^^^^' 

 cause of complaint shall have arisen, provided that such per- 

 son at the time of the conviction give notice of his intention 



to appeal, and shall at the time of such conviction, or within 

 forty-eight hours thereafter, enter into a recognizance with 

 two sufficient sureties conditioned jpersonally to appear at 

 the said session to try such appeal, and to abide the further 

 judgment of the court at such session, and to pay such costs 

 as shall be by the last-mentioned court awarded ; and it shall 

 be lawful for the magistrate or justices by whom such convic- 

 tion shall have been made to bind over any party who shall 

 have made information against the party convicted, and any 

 witnesses who shall have been examined, in sufficient recog- 

 nizances to attend and be examined at the hearing of such 

 appeal ; and every such witness, on producing a certificate of 

 being so bound under the hand of the said magistrate or 

 justices, shall be allowed compensation for his or her time, 

 trouble, and expenses in attending the appeal, which com- 

 pensation shall be paid in the first instance by the treasurer 

 of the county or place in like manner as in eases of misde- 

 meanor under the provisions of an act passed in the seventh 

 year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An 7 & 8 Geo. 4, 

 Act for improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in c. 28. 

 England;" and in case any such appeal shall be dismissed and 



