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manner aforesaid, or any person who, on behalf of the owner 

 or occupier of any such house, office, room or place, or person 

 using the same, shall invite other persons to resort thereto for 

 the purpose of making bets or wagers, in manner aforesaid, 

 shall upon summary conviction thereof before two justices of 

 the peace, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Thirty pounds, 

 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 nonpayment 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 correc- 

 tion, with or without hard labour, for any time not exceeding 

 Two calendar months. 



8. If any person convicted under this Act on information Penalties and 

 before justices shall be adjudged to pay any penalty, or any costs may be 

 costs and charges attending the conviction, and shall fail to pay ^ ^ ^ 

 such penalty or costs, the same may be levied by distress and 



sale of the goods and chattels of the offender by warrant under 

 the hand and seal of one of the convicting justices : Provided 

 always, that if any person shall be committed to prison for 

 default of payment of any penalty and costs, then the costs 

 alone may be levied by distress as aforesaid. 



9. One half of every pecuniary penalty which shall be ad- Application 

 judged to be paid under this Act shall be paid to the informer, o* penalties, 

 and the remaining half shall be applied in aid of the poor rate 



of the parish in which the offence shall have been committed, 

 and shall be paid for that purpose to the overseer or other 

 person authorized to receive poor rates in such parish, or if the 

 place wherein the offence shall have been committed shall be 

 extra-parochial, then the justices by whom such penalty shall 

 be adjudged to be paid shall direct such remaining half thereof 

 to be applied in aid of the poor rate of sach extra-parochial 

 place, or if there shall not be any poor rate therein, in aid of 

 the poor rate of any adjoining parish or district. 



10. In case any person who shall have laid any complaint or On neglect 

 information in respect of any offence against this Act shall not to prosecute 

 appear at the time at which the defendant may have been sum- ^„Jtice™may^' 

 moned to appear, or at any time to which the hearing of the authorize 

 summons may have been adjourned, or, in the opinion of any some other 

 justices having authority to adjudicate with respect to the person to 

 offence charged in such information or complaint as aforesaid, >^ 



shall otherwise have neglected to proceed upon or prosecute such 

 information or complaint with due diligence, it shall be lawful 

 for such justices to authorize any other person to proceed on 

 such summons instead of the person to whom the same may 

 have been granted, or if such justices think fit, to dismiss the 

 summons already granted, and authorize any person to take out 

 a fresh summons in respect of the offence charged in such 



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