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houses (*), or exhibiting placards or advertising them(y). 

 This most stringent Act (s), containing various other pro- 

 visions, has had the effect of putting down betting houses in 

 those parts of Great Britain to which it extends. It does 

 not extend to Scotland [a). 



The 36 & 37 Vict. c. 38 (The Vagrant Act Amendment 36 & 37 Yiot. 

 Act, 1873), extends the provisions of the 5 Geo. 4, c. 83, "• ^'^■ 

 to gaming in any street, &c. with coin, &c. 



The 37 Vict. c. 15 (The Betting Act, 1874), amends the 37 Vict. c. 15. 

 16 & 17 Vict. c. 119, and extends its provisions to Scotland, 

 and by section 1 it shall be construed as one with that Act, 

 which is referred to as " the principal Act." By section 3, 

 where any letter, circular, telegram, placard, handbill, card, 

 or advertisement is sent, exhibited or published, (1) whereby 

 it is made to appear that any person, either in the United 

 Kingdom or elsewhere, will, on application, give informa- 

 tion 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 principal Act, or will make on behalf of 

 any other person any such bet or wager as is mentioned in 

 the principal Act ; or (2) with 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 purpose 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 connexion 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 principal Act with respect to offences under that 

 section (6). 



The 42 & 43 Vict. c. 18, after reciting that " the fre- ^f^'/^^'^l^"'"* 

 quency of horse races in the immediate neighbourhood of ^^^'^f^f^ 

 the metropolis is productive of much mischief and incon- 

 venience, and the holding of such races in thickly-populated 

 places near the metropolis is calculated to cause, and does 

 in fact cause, annoyance and injury to persons resident 

 near to places where such races are held; " and (section 1) 

 enacting that " a horse race within the meaning of this Act 

 shall mean any race in which any horse, mare, or gelding 

 shall run, or be made to run, in competition with any other 



(x) 16 & 17 Vict. c. 119, BS. 3, 4. (a) IMd. tf. 20. 



■y) Ibid. s. 7. (J) 37 Vict. u. 15, Appendix. 



[z) See post, Chap. V. 



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