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force for making such entry, whether by breaking open doors or 

 otherwise, and to arrest, search and bring before a justice of 

 peace all such persons found therein as might have been 

 arrested therein by such justice of peace had he been personally 

 present ; and all such persons shall be dealt with according to 

 law, as if they had been arrested in such house, room or place 

 by the justice before whom they shall be so brought ; and any 

 such warrant may be in the form given in the first schedule 

 annexed to this Act. 



4. The owner or keeper of any common gaming house and Penalties on 

 every person having the care or management thereof, and also g^immg-house 

 every banker, croupier and other person who shall act in any '^^P^"^' "• 

 manner in conducting the business of any common gaming- 

 house, shall, on conviction thereof, by his own confession, or by 

 the oath of one or more credible witnesses, before any two 

 justices of the peace, beside any penalty or punishment to which 

 he may be liable under the provisions of the said Act of King 

 Henry the Eighth, be liable to forfeit and pay such penalty, not 

 more than one hundred pounds, as shall be adjudged by the 

 justices before whom he shall be convicted, or, in the 

 discretion of the justices before whom he shall be convicted, 

 may be committed to the house of correction, with or without 

 hard labour, for any time not more than six calendar months ; 

 and on nonpayment of any penalty so adjudged, and of the 

 reasonable costs and charges attending the conviction, the same 

 shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of 

 the offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of one of the 

 convicting justices : Provided always, that nothing herein 

 contained shall prevent any proceeding by indictment against 

 the owner or keeper or other person having the care or man- 

 agement of a common gaming house ; but no person who shall 

 have been summarily convicted of any such offence shall be 

 liable to be proceeded against by indictment for the same 

 offence. 



6. It shall not be necessary in support of any information Proof of 

 for gaming in, or suffering any games or gaming in, or for gaming lor 

 keeping or using, or being concerned in the management or "Jt^^gggssarv 

 conduct of a common gaming house, to prove that any person j^ support of 

 found playing at any game was playing for any money, wager informations 

 or stake. ^°'' gammg- 



6. If any superintendent belonging to the metropolitan police Commission- 

 force shall report in writing to the commissioners of police of ers of police 

 the metropolis that there are good grounds for believing, and ^p^rintendeift 

 that he does believe, that any house, room or place within the ^nd constables 

 metropolitan j)olice district (o), is kept or used as a common to enter 



gaming house, it shall be lawful for either of the said commis- gaming houses 

 ° and seize all 



(o) See 2 & 3 Vict. c. 4, s. 48. 



