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or in case there sliall be a continuation of damage then 

 within three calendar months next after the doing such 

 damage shall have ceased. 



18. In Ireland the term " metropolitan police force," and Interpreta- 

 the terms "commissioners of the police of the metropolis," tion of terms, 

 and the terms "metropolitan police district," shall mean and 



include respectively the Dublin metropolitan police force, the 

 commissioners of police of Dublin metropolis, and the jiolice 

 district of Dublin metropolis. 



19. This act shall commence and come into operation on Commence- 

 the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ™ent of act. 

 fifty-three. 



37 Vict. Cap. 15. 



An Act to amend the Act of sixteenth and seventeenth Victoria, 

 chapter one hundred and nineteen, intituled " An Act for the 

 Suppression of Betting Houses." 



"WTiereas it is expedient to amend the act of the session of 

 the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of her present 

 majesty, chapter one hundred and nineteen, intituled " An Act 

 for the Suppression of Betting Houses," and to extend the 

 provisions of such act to Scotland: 



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 j)arliament assembled, and by 

 the authority of the same, as follows: 



1. This act shall be construed as one with the act of the Act to be 

 session of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of construed 

 her present majesty, chapter one hundred and nineteen, in- ^^}^ ^^ ^ ^^ 

 tituled "An Act for the Suppression of Betting Houses" (in ^^^^' ^' ^^^* 

 this act referred to as the principal act), and the principal act 



and this act may be cited together as the Betting Acts, 1853 and Short title. 

 1874, and each of them may be cited sei^arately as the betting 

 act of the year in which it was passed. 



2. This act shall not come into operation until the thirty- Commence- 

 first day of Jidy, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. °ient of act. 



3. Where any letter, circidar, telegram, placard, handbill, Penalty on 

 card, or advertisement is sent, exhibited, or published, — persons ad- 



(l.) Whereby it is made to appear that any person, either vertising as 

 in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, will on appli- ^^ letting', 

 cation give information or advice for the purpose of 

 or with respect to any such bet or wager, or any such 

 event or contingency as is mentioned in the princiftal 

 act, or will make on behalf of any other person any 

 such bet or wager as is mentioned in the principal 

 act ; or, 



