STATUTES. 495 



13 Geo. II. Cap. 19. 



An Act to restrain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse 

 Eaces, and for amending an Act made in the last Session of 

 Parliam,ent, infitided " An Act for the more effectual pre- 

 venting of excessive and deceitful gaming." 



9. " And whereas a good and wholesome law was made in 12 Geo. 2, 

 the twelfth year of the reign of his present majesty King i;- 28. 

 George the Second, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual 

 preventing of excessive and deceitful Gaming ; ' but contrary 

 to the true intent and meaning thereof, some fraudulent and 

 deceitful games have been invented, and a certain game called 

 passage is now daily practised and carried on, to the ruin and 

 impoverishment of many of his majesty's subjects ; " it is Game of 

 therefore hereby enacted and declared, that the said game of passage, and 

 passage, and all and every other game and games invented or otlier games 

 to be invented, ivith one or more die or dice, or with any other Tjoiiihiteij 

 instrument, engine or device, in the nature of dice, having 

 one or more figures or numbers thereon {bacJcgammon and the 

 other games now played within the backgammon tables only 

 excepted^! are and shall be deemed to be games or lotteries by 

 dice, within the intent and meaning of the said in part recited 

 Act ; and all and every person and persons who shall set up, 

 maintain or keep any oflice, table or place (save and except 

 as in the said in part recited Act is provided and declared), 

 for the said game of passage, or for any other such game or 

 games as aforesaid (backgammon and the other games now 

 played with the backgammon tables only excepted), shall 

 severally forfeit, be subject and liable to, all and every the xTnder 

 penalties and forfeitures in and by the said in part recited Act penalties of 

 inflicted upon any person or persons who shall erect, set up, -^^ *^^°- '^' 

 continue or keep any of the games or lotteries in the said in °' 

 part recited Act mentioned ; and all and every person or persons 

 who shall play, set at stake, or adventure at the said game of 

 passage, or at any such other game as aforesaid (backgammon 

 and the other games now played with the backgammon tables 

 only excepted), save and except as in the said in part recited 

 Act is provided and declared, he and they respectively shall 

 severally forfeit, be subject and liable to all and every the 

 penalties and forfeitures in and by the said in part recited Act 

 inflicted upon any person or persons who shall play, set at 

 stake or adventure at any of the said games in the said in part 

 recited Act mentioned ; and all and every such offenders 

 respectively shall be prosecuted and convicted, and the several 

 penalties and forfeitures shall be sued for and recovered and 

 disposed of in like manner, and to such uses, as the several 

 penalties and forfeitures in either of such cases are by the said 



