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(2.) Witli intent to induce any person to apply to any house, 

 office, room, or place, or to any person, with, the view 

 of obtaining information or advice for the pui'pose of 

 any such bet or wager or with respect to any such 

 event or contingency as is mentioned in the principal 

 act ; or, 

 (3.) Inviting any person to make or take any share in or in 

 connection with any such bet or wager ; 

 every person sending, exhibiting, or publishing, or causing 

 the same to be sent, exhibited, or published, shall be subject 

 to the penalties provided in the seventh section of the prin- 

 cipal act with respect to offences under that section. 

 Extension to 4. The twentieth section of the principal act is hereby re- 

 Scotland, pealed, and the principal act, as amended by this act, shall 

 extend to Scotland, with the following modifications and pro- 

 visions : 



(1.) The term " distress" shall mean poinding and sale : 

 The term " misdemeanour" shall mean a crime and 

 offence : 

 (2.) All offences or penalties under this act and the prin- 

 cipal act shall be prosecuted and recovered before the 

 sheriff of the county or his substitute in the sheriff 

 court, at the instance of the procurator fiscal, or of 

 any private person, under the provisions of the Sum- 

 mary Procedure Act, 1864, and all the jurisdictions, 

 powers, and authorities necessary for the purposes of 

 this section are hereby conferred on the sheriffs and 

 their substitutes : 

 (3.) Every pecuniary penalty which is adjudged to bo paid 

 under this or the principal act, shall be paid to the 

 clerk of the court, and shall be by him accounted for 

 and paid to the Queen's and lord treasurer's remem- 

 brancer on behalf of her majesty : 

 (4.) The thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the principal 

 act shall not apply to Scotland, but it shall be com- 

 petent to any person who is convicted under this act 

 or the principal act to appeal against such conviction 

 to the high court of justiciary, in the manner pre- 

 scribed by such of the provisions of the act of the 

 twentieth year of the reign of King George the 

 Second, chapter forty-three, and any acts amending 

 the same, as relate to appeals in matters criminal, 

 and by and under the rules, limitations, convictions, 

 and restrictions contained in the said provisions. 



