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playing at cards, dice, tables, tennis, boivls, or other game or 

 games whatsoever, or by betting on the sides or hands of such as 

 did. game at any of the games aforesaid, or for the reimbursing or 

 repaying any money knowingly lent or advanced for such gaming 

 or betting as aforesaid, or lent or advanced at the time and place 

 of such play to any person or persons so gaming or betting as 

 aforesaid, or that should, during such play, so play or bet, should 

 be utterly void, frustrate, and of none effect, to all intents and 

 purposes whatsoever; and that where such mortgages, securities, 

 or other conveyances, should be of lands, tenements, or here- 

 ditaments, or should be such as should encumber or affect the 

 same, such mortgages, securities, or other conveyances should 

 enure and be to and for the sole use and benefit of and should 

 devolve upon such person or persons as should or might have 

 or be entitled to such lands or hereditaments in case the said 

 grantor or grantors thereof, or the person or persons so incum- 

 bering the same, had been naturally dead, and as if such 

 mortgages, securities, or other conveyances had been made to 

 such person or persons so to be entitled after the decease of 

 the person or persons so encumbering the same ; and that all 

 grants or conveyances to be made for the preventing of such 

 lands, tenements, or hereditaments from coming to or de- 

 volving upon such person or persons thereby intended to 

 enjoy the same as aforesaid should be deemed fraudulent and 

 void and of none effect, to all intents and purposes what- 

 soever : and whereas by an Act [Kecital of effect of 1 2 Ann. 

 Stat. 2, c. 16, and 58 Geo. 3, c. 93, relating to usurious trans- 

 actions, and of 6 Geo. 4, c. 16, relating to transactions with 

 bankrupts, and of 45 Geo. 3, c. 72, relating to transactions for 

 ransoms of ships] : and whereas securities and instruments 

 made void by virtue of the several hereinbefore recited Acts of 

 the sixteenth year of the reign of his said late majesty King 

 Charles the Second, the tenth year of the reign of his said late 

 majesty King William the Third, the ninth and eleventh years 

 of the reign of her said late majesty Queen Anne, the eleventh 

 and twelfth years of the reign of his said late majesty King 

 George the Third, the forty-fifth year of the reign of his said 

 late majesty King George the Third, and the sixth year of the 

 reign of his said late majesty King George the Fourth, and 

 securities and instruments made void by virtue of the said Act 

 of the twelfth year of the reign of her said late majesty Queen 

 Anne and the fifth year of the reign of his said late majesty 

 King George the Second, other than bills of exchange or pro- 

 missory notes made valid by the said act of the fifty-eighth 

 year of the reign of his said late majesty King George the 

 Third, are sometimes indorsed, transferred, assigned or con- 

 veyed to purchasers or other persons for a valuable considera- 

 tion, without notice of the original consideration for which such 



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