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instruments of 

 gamiug and 

 take into 

 custody all 

 persons found 

 therein. 



Police super- 

 intendent may 

 search for 

 instruments 

 of gaming. 



What shall 

 be deemed 

 evidence of 

 gaming. 



Indemnity of 

 witnesses. 



sioners, by order in writing, to authorize the superintendent to 

 enter any such house, room or place, with such constables as 

 shall be directed l^y the commissioner to accompany him, and, 

 if necessary, to use force for the purpose of efTecting such 

 entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and to take 

 into custody all persons who shall be found therein, and to 

 seize all tables and instruments of gaming found in such house 

 or premises, and also to seize all monies and securities for 

 money found therein. 



7. It shall be lawful for the police superintendent making 

 such entry as aforesaid in obedience to any such order of one of 

 the commissioners of police of the metropolis, with the assist- 

 ance of any constable or constables accompanying him, to 

 search all parts of the house, room or place which he shall 

 have so entered, where he shall suspect that tables or instru- 

 ments of gaming are concealed, and all persons whom he shall 

 find therein, and to seize all tables and instruments of gaming 

 which he shall so find. 



8. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables or other 

 instruments of gaming used in playing any unlawful game shall 

 be found in any house, room or place, suspected to be used as a 

 common gaming house, and entered under a warrant or order 

 issued under the provisions of this Act, or about the person of 

 any of those who shall be found therein, it shall be evidence, 

 until the contrary be made to appear, that such house, room or 

 place, is used as a common gaming house, and that the persons 

 found in the room or place where such tables or instruments of 

 gaming shall have been found were playing therein, although no 

 play was actually going on in the presence of the superintendent 

 or constable entering the same, under a warrant or order issued 

 under the provisions of this Act, or in the presence of those 

 persons by whom he shall be accompanied as aforesaid ; and it 

 shall be lawful for the police magistrate or justices before whom 

 any person shall be taken by virtue of the warrant or order to 

 direct all such tables and instruments of gaming to be forth- 

 with destroyed. 



9. And for the more eff'ectual prosecution of the keepers of 

 common gaming houses, be it enacted, that every person who 

 shall have been concerned in any unlawful gaming, and who 

 shall be examined as a witness by or before any police magis- 

 trate or justice of the peace, or on the trial of any indictment 

 or information against the owner or keeper or other person 

 having the care or management of any common gaming house, 

 touching such unlawful gaming, and who upon such exami- 

 nation shall make true and faithful discovery to the best of 

 his or her knowledge of all things as to which he or she shall 

 be so examined, and shall thereupon receive from the magis- 

 trate or justice of the peace or judge of the court by or before 



