490 APPENDIX. 



sons have or hath used or exercised any unlawful game con- 

 trary to the said statute, the said justice or justices shall have 

 full power and authority to commit all and every such offender 

 and offenders to prison, without bail or mainprize, unless and 

 until such offender and offenders shall enter into one or more 

 recognizance or recognizances, with sureties or without, at 

 the discretion of tlie said justice or justices of the peace, that 

 he or they respectively shall not thenceforth play at or use 

 such unlawful game. 



12 Geo. II. Cap. 28. 



An Act for the more effectual preventing of excesdve'and 

 deceitful Gaming. 



" And whereas it is found by experience that the said good 

 and wholesome laws have not effectually answered the good 

 ends, intents and purposes in and by the said Acts {d) de- 

 signed ; but that, contrary to the true intent and meaning of 

 the said recited Acts, several deceitful games and subscriptions 

 are dailj^ carried on under the denomination of sales of houses, 

 lands, plate, jewels, goods and other things ; and that several 

 printers have printed, published, or caused to be printed and 

 published, proposals or schemes for the sale of such houses, 

 lands, plates, jewels, goods and other things, to be determined 

 by Raffles, by mathematical machines or engines, and by other 

 indirect ways and means, tending to evade the said good and 

 wholesome laws before mentioned ; and whereas several per- 

 sons have for many years past carried on and set up certain 

 fraudulent games and lotteries, to be determined by the 

 chance of cards and dice, under the denomination of the games 

 of the ace of hearts, pharaoh, basset and hazard, and thereby 

 defrauded several of his majesty's subjects ignorant of the 

 great disadvantage adventures in the said games and lotteries 

 so denominated the games of the ace of hearts, pharaoh, basset 

 or hazard {e), are under, subject and liable to ; and whereas 

 several doubts have arisen whether the said games of the ace 

 of hearts, pharaoh, basset and hazard (e) are within the de- 

 scriptions of the lotteries prohibited by the said recited Acts of 

 Parliament [d) ; and whereas great difficulties have arisen 

 upon the methods of conviction of the offenders against the 

 said Acts of Parliament ; for remedy whereof, and for explain- 

 ing and making more effectual the said Acts of Parliament, 

 may it please your most excellent majesty that it may be 



{d) 10 & 11 "Will. 3, c. 17; 9 (e) Sex v. Zistoii, 5 T. E. 340; 



Anne, c. 6, s. 56 ; 8 Geo. 1, c. 2, M'Kimiell v. Rob'uison, 3 M. & W. 

 s. 36, prohibiting Lotteries. 434. 



