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APPENDIX. 



paying money 

 on event of 

 any bet. 



Money so 

 received mav 

 be recovered 

 from tbe per- 

 sons receiving 

 tbe same. 



Tbis Act not 

 to extend to 

 stakes due to 

 owner of borse 

 winning a 

 race. 



Penalty on 

 persons 

 exhibiting 

 placards or 

 advertising 

 bettinn' bouses. 



behalf of any such owner or occupier, or any person having 

 the care or management or in any manner assisting in con- 

 ducting the business thereof, who shall receive, directly or 

 indirectly, any money or valuable thing as a deposit on any 

 bet, on condition of paying any sum of money or other valuable 

 thing on the happening of any event or contingency of or re- 

 lating to a horse race or any other race, or any fight, game, 

 sport or exercise, or as or for the consideration for any assur- 

 ance, undertaking, promise or agreement, express or implied, 

 to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any 

 such event or contingency, and any person giving any ac- 

 knowledgment, note, security or draft on the receipt of any 

 money or valuable thing so paid or given as aforesaid, pur- 

 porting or intended to entitle the bearer or any other person 

 to receive any money or valuable thing on the happening of 

 any such event or contingency as aforesaid, shall, upon sum- 

 mary conviction thereof before two j-istices of the peace, forfeit 

 and pay such penalty, not exceeding Fifty pounds, as shall be 

 adjudged by such justices, and may be further adjudged by 

 such justices to pay such costs attending such conviction as 

 to the said justices; shall seem reasonable ; and on the non-pay- 

 ment of such penalty and costs, or in the first instance, if to 

 such justices it shall seem fit, may be committed to the 

 common gaol or house of correction, with or without hard 

 labour, for any time not exceeding Three calendar months, (a) 



5. Any money or valuable thing received by any such person 

 aforesaid, as a deposit on any bet, or as or for the consideration 

 for any such assurance, undertaking, promise or agreement as 

 aforesaid, shall be deemed to have been received to or for the 

 use of the person from whom the same was received, and 

 such money or valuable thing, or the value thereof, may be 

 recovered accordingly, with full costs of suit, in any court of 

 competent jurisdiction. 



6. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall 

 extend to any person receiving or holding any money or 

 valuable thing, by way of stakes or deposit to be paid to the 

 winner of any race or lawful sport, game or exercise, or to the 

 owner of any horse engaged in any race. 



7. Any person exhibiting or publishing or causing to be 

 exhibited or published any placard, handbill, card, writing, 

 sign or advertisement, whereby it shall be made to appear that 

 any house, office, room or place is opened, kept or used for 

 the purpose of making bets or wagers in manner aforesaid, 

 or for the purpose of exhibiting lists for betting, or with 

 intent to induce any person to resort to such house, office, 

 room or place for the purpose of making bets or wagers in 



(») See note to s. 3 supra. 



