THEIR HISTORY, RISE AND PROGRESS. 367 



the miscMef whicli may happen therefrom, and also apply 

 to sundry games of skill from which the like mischiefs 

 cannot arise." It repeals so much of 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, 

 whereby any game of mere skill is declared unlawful, or 

 which enacts a penalty for playing at any such game, or 

 for lacking bows or arrows, or for not making and continuing 

 huts or which regulates the making, selling, or using of 

 bows and arrows, and also so much of the Act as 

 requires the mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and other 

 head officers within every city, borough, and town in the 

 realm, to make search weekly, or at the furthest, once a 

 month, in all places where houses, alleys, plays, places of 

 dicing, carding or gaming shall be suspected to be had or 

 kept, and also so much of the Act as makes it lawful for 

 every master to license his servant, and for every nobleman 

 or other person worth 100/. a year, to license his servants 

 or family to play {g). It repeals the whole of 16 Car. 2, 

 c. 7, and so much of 9 Anne, c. 14, as was not altered by 

 5 & 6 "Will. 4, c. 41, and also so much of 18 Geo. 2, c. 34, 

 as relates to 9 Anne, c. 14, or as renders any person liable 

 to be indicted and punished for winning or losing at play or 

 by betting at any one time the sum or value of 10/., or 

 within the space of twenty-four hours the sum or value of 

 20/. (A). This statute, and the 17 & 18 Vict. c. 38, which 

 is supplementary to it, make a variety of regulations and 

 enactments, which will be considered, both with reference 

 to the decisions which have been come to under the old 

 law, and as showing the present state of the law of racing 

 and gaming. 



By the 19 & 20 Vict. c. 82, the duty of 3/. 17s. payable Repeal of 

 on every horse kept or used for the purpose of racing {i) ^"*>' ""^ '^'^'^ 

 was made payable for every horse which should start or 

 run for any plate, prize, or sum of money, or other 

 thing (/c). 



The whole of this Act is, however, repealed by the 37 & 

 38 Vict. c. 16, ss. 11, 21, and the duty on race horses is 

 abolished. 



By an Act passed in this reign the duty on importing 

 a horse was reduced to 1/. (/) ; and now horses may be 

 imported duty free (tn). Acts were passed from time to 



((?) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 1, Ap- (?) 5 cS: 6 Vict. c. 47, Table (A.), 



pendix. Class 1, repealed by 8 & 9 Vict. 



(h) Ibid. s. 15, Appendix. c. 84. 



(i) 16 & 17 Vict. c. 90. (m) 9 & 10 Vict. c. 23, Table 



{k) 19 & 20 Vict. c. 82, s. 2. (IV.). 



