496 APPENDIX. 



in part recited Act directed to be sued for and recovered, and 

 disposed of. 



10. [Double costs] (n). 



18 Geo. II. Cap. 34. 



An Act to expiuin, amend, and make more effectv.al the Laws in 

 being, to prevent excessive and deceitful Gaming ; and to re- 

 strain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse Eaces. 

 " Whereas notwithstanding the many good and wholesome 

 laws now in being for preventing excessive and deceitful 

 gaming, many persons of ill fame and reputation, who have 

 no visible means of subsistence, do keep houses, rooms, and 

 other places for playing, and do permit persons therein to play 

 at cards, dice and other devices, for large sums of money, by 

 means whereof divers young and unwary persons and others 

 are drawn in to lose the greatest part, and sometimes all their 

 substance ; and it frequently happens they are thereby reduced 

 to the utmost necessities, and betake themselves to the most 

 wicked courses, which end in their utter ruin : And whereas a 

 certain pernicious game called roulet or roly-poly, is daily prac- 

 tised, and the laws now in being have by experience been found 

 ineffectual to put a stop to such pernicious practices : " For 

 remedy whereof may it please your majesty that it may be 

 enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and 

 temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, 

 'So person and by the authority of the same, That from and after the 



shall keep a twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and 

 Blavin °rolv- forty-five, no person or persons, of what condition soever, shall 

 poly, o°- other keep any house, room or place for playing, or permit or suffer 

 game with any person or persons whatsoever, within any such house, room 



cards or dice, qj. p]aoe to play at the said game of roulet, otherwise roly-poly, 

 TjenaUies of ""^ ^^ ^^^ other game, with cards or dice, already prohibited by 

 12 Geo. 2 the laws of this realm ; and in case any person or persons 



c. 28.. whatsoever shall keep any such house, room or place for 



playing, or permit or suffer any person or persons as aforesaid 

 to play at the said game of roulet, otherwise roly-poly, or at any 

 other game, with cards or dice, already prohibited by law, such 

 person or persons so offending shall incur the pains and penal- 

 ties, and be liable to such prosecution as is directed in and by 

 an Act made in the twelfth year of the reign of his present 

 majesty, intituled " An Act for the more effectual preventing 

 excessive and deceitful Gaming." 



(n) Repealed by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97, s. 2. 



