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whom lie or she shall be so examined a certificate in writing to 

 that eiFect, shall be freed from all criminal prosecutions, and 

 from all forfeitures, punishments and disabilities, to which he 

 or she may have become liable for any thing done before that 

 time in respect of such unlawful gaming. 



10. The justices in every division, district and place in justices may 

 England, for which a special session of the justices of the peace grant biUiard 

 (called the general annaal licensing meeting) isholden annually li^^i^ps at 

 for granting licences to persons keeping or being about to keep ge'ss^o^^ 

 inns, alehouses and victualling houses, to sell exciseable liquors 



by retail, to be drunk or consumed on the premises therein 

 specified, shall have authority at such general annual licensing 

 meeting, or at any adjournment tliereof, to grant billiard 

 licences to such persons as the said justices shall in their dis- 

 cretion deem fit and proper to keep public billiard tables and 

 bagatelle boards, or instruments used in any game of the like 

 kind, and at the special sessions holden for transferring licences 

 to keep inns shall have authority to transfer such billiard 

 licences to such other persons as they in their discretion shall 

 deem fit and proper to continue to hold the same, and who in 

 each case shall be required to give the like notice of their inten- 

 tion to apply for such billiard licence, (p) and entitled to receive 

 the like notice of the licensing days, as is required in the case 

 of persons intending to apply for a licence or the transfer of a 

 licence to sell exciseable liquors by retail to be drunk or con- 

 sumed on the premises, or as near thereto as the case will allow ; 

 and every such billiard licence shall be in the form given in the 

 third schedule annexed to this act, and shall continue in force 

 in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey from the fifth day of 

 April, and elsewhere from the tenth day of October, after the 

 granting thereof, for one whole year thence respectively next 

 ensuing, and no longer ; and the clerk of the j ustioes shall be 

 entitled to demand and receive from every person licensed 

 under this act, for the petty constable or other peace oflicer- 

 for serving notices and other services required of him, the sum 

 of One shilling, and for the clerk of the justices, for the 

 licence, the sum of Five shillings ; and every clerk who shall 

 demand or receive from any person for such fees more than 

 the said sums, being together Six shillings, shall for every 

 such offence, on conviction before one justice, forfeit and pay 

 the sum of Five pounds. 



11. After the fifth day of April, 1846, in the counties of Places kept 

 Middlesex and Surrey, and elsewhere after the tenth day of fjjjP^^^^^ygg 

 October next after the passing of this Act, every house, room ^^ ^g UcenseX 

 or place kept for public billiard playing, or where a public 



billiard table or bagatelle board, or instrument used in any 



{p) The words in italics were reiJealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 

 1875. 



