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GAMING. 



Agreement to 

 pay money on 

 event of 

 lottery. 



Selling tickets. 

 4 Geo'. 4, c. 60. 



Place. 



Eecovery of 

 penalties. 

 46 Geo. 3, 

 0. 148. 



Advertising 

 lotteries. 



offence, and provides for the punishment of persons 

 obstructing any such officer in the execution of his duty; 

 aiders and abettors, and persons employing others in carry- 

 ing on such lotteries being deemed rogues and vagabonds, 

 and punishable as such. 



By s. 5, no person is to agree to pay money or to deliver 

 goods on any event or contingency relative to the drawing 

 of any tickets, lots, or numbers in any such lottery, or to 

 publish any proposal for any such purposes under a penalty 

 of 100/. 



By 4 Geo. 4, c. 60, s. 41, any person selling tickets in any 

 lottery authorised by any foreign potentate or state, or to be 

 drawn in any foreign country, or in any lottery not autho- 

 rised by Act of Parliament, or publishing any proposal or 

 scheme for the sale of tickets, is rendered liable to a fine 

 of 50/., and to be dealt with as a rogue and vagabond. 



And by s. 60 of the same Act, the word " place " is 

 declared to extend to any place in or out of an enclosed 

 building, whether on land or water. 



By 46 Greo. 3, c. 148, s. 59, all penalties under that Act, 

 or any Act concerning lotteries, are to go to the Crown, 

 and to be sued for only in the name of the Attorney • 

 General. 



Previously to this enactment proceedings for the recovery 

 of penalties under the 42 Geo. 3, c. 119, could be taken 

 before magistrates, except in cases of state lotteries (x) ; 

 but all ])roceedings for the recovery of penalties under the 

 Lottery Acts must now be taken in the name of the 

 Attorney-General, whether the lotteries are private or state 

 lotteries (y). 



The statute 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 66, imposes a penalty of 

 50/. on any person who shall print or publish any advertise- 

 ment or other notice relating to the drawing of any foreign 

 or other lottery not authorised by Act of Parliament, or 

 for the sale of tickets or chances iu any such lottery, or 

 concerning or in any manner relating to any such lottery, 

 or any ticket, chance, or share therein. By the 8 & 9 Vict, 

 c. 74, all penalties incurred under the last-mentioned Act 

 are to go to the Crown, and proceedings in respect of 

 the same to be taken in the name of the Attorney- 

 General. 



A general statement in the prospectus of a company 

 that it was formed to acquire and work concessions granted 



(x) R. V. Lislon, 5 T. R. 338. 



(2/) R- 

 937. 



Tudcknham, 9 D. P. C. 



