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APPEXDIX. 



games, by reason of anything done or wiiich may be done 

 by them or any of them in furtherance of the allotment or 

 distribution, by scheme or otherwise, of paintings, drawings, 

 or other works of art, or of the allotment or distribution of 

 sums of money as prizes to be expended for their purchase : 

 provided always, that a royal charter or charters shall have 

 been first obtained for the incorporation of any such association, 

 or provided that the deed of partnership, or other instrument 

 or instruments constituting such association, and the rules and 

 regulations relating to the proceedings of such association for 

 such purposes as aforesaid, shall have first been submitted to 

 the consideration and be approved of by a committee of her 

 majesty's most honourable privy council, and a copy thereof 

 deposited with such committee ; and that it shall be expressed 

 in every such charter, deed or instrument, that it shall be law- 

 ful for any committee of her majesty's privy council to whom 

 the consideration of art unions shall be referred by her majesty, 

 whenever it shall appear to them that any such association is 

 perverted from the purposes of this Act, to certify the fact to 

 her majesty, and thereupon it shall be lawful for her majesty 

 to revoke or annul the charter, deed or instrument under 

 which the association so offending shall have been constituted ; 

 and nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to apply to 

 any association whose charter, deed of partnership, or other 

 instrument constituting the same, shall have been so revoked 

 or annulled. 



No house, &c. 

 to be kept for 

 purpose of 

 owner or 

 occupier 

 betting with 

 other persons. 



16 & 17 Vict. Cap. 119. 

 An Act for the Snp2}re.ision of Betting Houies. 



Whereas a Jcind of gaming has of late sprung up, tending to the 

 injury and demoralization of improvident persons, by the opening 

 of places called betting houses or offices, and the receiving of money 

 in advance by the owners or occupiers of such houses or offices, or 

 by other persons acting on their behalf , on their promUes to pay 

 money on events of horse races and the like contingencies : for the 

 suppression thereof, be it enacted (y) : — 



1. No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, 

 kept, or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper 

 thereof, or any person using the same, or any person procured 

 or employed by or acting for or on behalf of such owner, 

 occupier, or keeper, or person using the same, or of any 

 person having the care or management or in any manner con- 



(t/) This preamble was repealed 

 by the Statute Law Eeyision Act, 

 1892, but such repeal is not to affect 



the construction of the Act, and the 

 preamble may, therefore, stiU be 

 looked to for that purpose. 



