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APPENDIX. 



Cheating at 

 play to be 

 punished as 

 ohtaining 

 money by 

 false 

 pretences. 



Wagers not 

 recoverable 

 at law. 



Appeal to 

 quarter 



sessions. 



police magistrate or any two justices of the peace, be deemed 

 guilty of an offence against the tenor of his licence, whether 

 the same be a billiard licence or a victualler's licence, and in 

 the case of a first, second, third or subsequent offence shall be 

 punished accm-dincily (r). 



15. [Eepeal of the provisions of 16 Car. 2, c. 7 ; 9 Anne, 

 c. 14 ; and 18 Geo. 2, c. 34, against excessive gaming (s).] 



17. Every person who shall, by djaj fraud or unlaviful device 

 or ill practice, in playing at or with cards, dice, tables or other 

 game, or in bearing a part in the stakes, wagers, or adventures, 

 or in betting on the sides or hands of them that do play, or in 

 wagering on the event of any game, sport, pastime or exercise, 

 win from any other person to himself, or any other or others, 

 any sum of money or valuable thing, shall be deemed guilty of 

 obtaining such money or valuable thing from such other person 

 by a false pretence, with intent to cheat or defraud such person 

 of the same, and, being convicted thereof, shall be punished 

 accordingly. 



18. All contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in 

 writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; 

 and no suit shall be brought or inaintained in any court of 

 law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable 

 thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have 

 been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event 

 on which any wager shall have been made : provided always, 

 that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any sub- 

 scription or contribution, or agreement to subscribe or con- 

 tribute, for or towards any plate, prize, or sum of money to be 

 awarded to the winner or winners of any lawful game, sport, 

 pastime or exercise. 



19. [Proceedings under feigned issues abolished (*)]. 



20. Any person who shall be summarily convicted under 

 this Act may appeal to the next general or quart.er sessions 

 of the peace . . . ■ iu) ; and it shall be lawful for the 

 magistrate or justices by whom such conviction shall have 

 been made to bind over the witnesses who shall have been 

 examined in sufficient recognizances to attend and be examined 

 at the hearing of such appeal ; and that every such witness, on 

 producing a certificate of being so bound, under the hand of 

 the said magistrate or justices, shall be allowed compensation 

 for his or her time, trouble and expenses in attending the 

 appeal, which compensation shall be paid in the first instance 

 by the treasurer of the county or place, in like manner as in 



()■) The words in italics were re- 

 pealed by the Statute Law Revision 

 Act, 187S. 



(s) This section was repealed by 

 the Statute Law Eevision Act, 1875. 



it) Repealed by the Statute Law 

 Eevision Act, 1892. 



iii) The omitted portion of this 

 section was repealed by the Summary 

 Jm-isdiction Act, 1884. 



