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APPENDIX. 



9(jreo. 4, c. 61. 



Notice that 

 such places 

 are licensed 

 for billiards 

 to be put up. 



Penalties for 

 offences 

 against tenor 

 of licences. 



9 Geo. 4, c. 61 



game of the like kind is kept, at which persons are admitted 

 to play, except in houses or premises specified in any licence 

 granted under an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of 

 King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the 

 granting of Licences to Keepers of Inns, Ale-houses, and 

 Victualling Houses in England," hereinafter called a Victualler's 

 Licence, shall be licensed under this Act ; and after the said 

 fifth day of April in Middlesex and Surrey, and elsewhere after 

 the said tenth day of October, every person keeping any such 

 public billiard table or bagatelle board, or instrument used in 

 any game of the like kind for public use, without being duly 

 licensed so to do, and not holding a victualler's licence for the 

 house or premises where such billiard table, bagatelle board, 

 or other instrument as aforesaid is kept or used, and also every 

 person licensed under this Act who shall not during the con- 

 tinuance of such billiard licence put and keep up the words 

 " Licensed for Billiards," legibly painted in some conspicuous 

 place near the door and on the outside of the house specified 

 in the licence, shall be liable to be proceeded against as the 

 keeper of a common gaming house, and, beside any penalty or 

 punishment to which he may be liable if convicted of keeping 

 a common gaming house, shall, on conviction of keeping such 

 unlicensed billiard table, bagatelle board, or other instrument 

 as aforesaid, by his own confession, or by the oath of one or 

 more credible witnesses before any police magistrate or any 

 two justices of the peace, be liable to pay such penalty, not 

 more than Ten pounds for every day on which such billiard 

 table, bagatelle board, or instrument as aforesaid shall be used, 

 as shall be adjudged by the magistrate or justices before whom 

 he shall be convicted, or, in the discretion of the magistrate or 

 justices, may be committed to the house of correction, with or 

 without hard labour, for any time not more than one calendar 

 month ; . . . . (j) but no person who shall have been 

 summarily convicted of any such offence shall be liable to be 

 further proceeded against by indictment for the same offence. 



12. Every person licensed under this Act, who shall be con- 

 victed before a police magistrate or two justices acting in and 

 for the division or place in which shall be situated the house 

 kept or theretofore kept by such person of any offence against 

 the tenor of the licence to him granted, shall be liable to the 

 same penalties and punishments in the case of a first, second 

 or third offence respectively to which persons licensed under 

 an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of King George 

 the Fourth, intituled " An Act to regulate the granting of 

 Licences to Keepers of Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling Houses 

 in England," are respectively liable on conviction of a first, 



[q) The omitted portion of this section was repealed by the Summary Juris- 

 diction Act, 1884. 



