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APPENDIX. 



Games -within 

 intent of the 

 Act. 



60/. penalty 

 on the 

 adventurers. 



Sales hy 

 lotteries Toid ; 



and lands, &c. 

 forfeited. 



lately erected for the use and benefit of poor persons resorting 

 to the said city for the benefit of the mineral waters, after 

 deducting the charges of conviction as aforesaid. 



2. The said games of the ace of hearts, pharaoli, hasset and 

 hazard (/), are and are hereby declared to be games or lotteries 

 by cards or dice within the intent and meaning of the said in 

 part recited Acts ; and that all and every person or persons 

 who shall set up, maintain or keep the said games of the ace 

 of hearts, pharaoh, basset and hazard shall be subject and 

 liable to all and every the penalties and forfeitures in and by 

 this Act inflicted upon any person or persons who shall erect, 

 set up, continue or keep any of the said games or lotteries in 

 this present Act mentioned ; and shall be prosecuted and 

 convicted, and the penalties and forfeitures shall be sued for 

 and recovered, in like manner as the said penalties and for- 

 feitures are by this Act directed to be sued for and recovered. 



3. All and every person and persons who shall be adven- 

 turers in any of the said games, lottery or lotteries, sale or 

 sales ; or shall play, set at, stake or punt at either of the said 

 games of the ace of hearts, pharaoh, basset and hazard (/), and 

 shall be thereof convicted in such manner and form as in and 

 by this Act is prescribed, every such person or persons shall 

 forfeit and lose the sum of Fifty pounds, to be sued for and 

 recovered as aforesaid. 



4. All and every such sale or sales of houses, lands, advow- 

 sons, presentations to livings, plate, jewels, ships, goods or 

 other things by any game, lottery or lotteries, machine, engine 

 or other device whatsoever, depending upon or to be deter- 

 mined by chance or lot, shall and are hereby declared to be 

 void to all intents and purposes whatsoever ; and all such 

 houses, lands, advowsons, presentations to livings, plate, jewels, 

 ships, goods or other things set up and exposed to sale in 

 manner and form aforesaid shall be forfeited to such person 

 or persons who shall sue for the same, by action, bill, plaint or 

 information, in any of his majesty's courts of record, or at the 

 assizes for any county where the ofi'ence shall be committed ; 

 in which action, bill, plaint or information no essoin, protection, 

 wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be allowed. 



5. Provided always, that if any person or persons shall think 

 him, her or themselves aggrieved by the judgment or deter- 

 mination of any justice or justices of the peace or mayor as 

 aforesaid, upon any conviction of or for any of the offences in 

 this Act, such person or persons may appeal from the said 

 judgment of the said justice or justices or mayor to the nest 

 general quarter sessions of the peace (g). 



(/) Sex V. Ziston, 5 T. R. 340 ; (g) The rest of this section was 



Jp'KhmeU v. Robinson, 3 M. & W. repealed by the Summary Jurisdic- 

 434. tion Act, 1884, as replaced by s. 31 



