STATUTES. 



507 



AVTien billiard 

 playing shall 

 not be 

 allowed. 



second or third offence, against the tenor of the licence granted 

 to them under the last-recited Act, or as near thereunto as the 

 nature of the case will allow ; and all the provisions of the 

 last-recited Act with respect to convictions and penalties for 

 offences against the last-recited Act, and the proceedings for 

 enforcing the same, and to the expenses of prosecution and 

 penalties on witnesses for not attending and the recovery and 

 application of penalties, and the proceedings on appeals against 

 convictions, and the award of costs on appeals, and in actions 

 against justices, constables or other persons, for anything done 

 in the execution of the last-recited Act, shall be deemed to 

 apply, so far as they are applicable, to convictions for offences 

 against the tenor of the licences granted under this Act, and 

 to the proceedings consequent thereupon or connected there- 

 with, as if they were herein re-enacted. 



13. Every person keeping any public billiard table or baga- 

 telle board, or instrument used in any game of the like kind, 

 whether he be the holder of a victualler's licence or licensed 

 under this Act, who shall allow any person to play at such 

 table, board or instrument, after one and before eight of the 

 clock in the morning of any day, or at any time on Sundays, 

 Christmas Day, or Good Friday, or any day appointed to be 

 kept as a public fast or thanksgiving ; and every person 

 holding a victualler's licence who shall allow any person to 

 play at such table, board or instrument, kept on the premises 

 specified in such victualler's licence at any time when such 

 premises are not by law allowed to be open for the sale of wme, 

 spirits or beer, or other fermented or distilled liquors, shall be 

 liable to the penalties herein provided in the case of persons 

 keeping such public billiard table, bagatelle board or instru- 

 ment, as aforesaid for public use without licence ; and during 

 those times when play at such table, board or instrument, is 

 not allowed by this Act, every house licensed under this Act, 

 and every billiard room in every house specified in any victual- 

 ler's licence, shall be closed, and the keeping of the same open, 

 or allowing any person to play therein or thereat, at any of the 

 times or on any of the days during which such play is not 

 allowed by this Act, shall be deemed in each case an offence 

 against the tenor of the licence of the person so offending. 



14. It shall be lawful for all constables and officers of police Empowering 

 to enter into any house, room or place where any public table constables to 

 or board is kept for playing at billiards, bagatelle or any game houses"^"'*^'^ 

 of the like kind, when and so often as such constables and 



officers shall think proper; and every person licensed under 

 the said Act of the ninth year of the reign of King George the 

 Fourth, or under this Act, who shall refuse to admit or who 

 shall not admit any such constable or officer of police into such 

 house, room or place shall, on conviction thereof before a 



