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APPENDIX. 



Justices may 

 authorize 

 search of 

 suspected 

 houses. 



Commissioners 

 of police may 

 authorize 

 superintendent 

 of police to 

 enter and 

 search 

 suspected 

 houses. 



Appeal to 



quarter 



sessions. 



information or complaint, in like manner as if the previous 

 summons had not been granted. 



11. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, upon com- 

 plaint made before him on oath that there is reason to suspect 

 any house, office, room, or place to be kept or used as a betting 

 house or office, ooutrarj' to this Act, to give authority by special 

 warrant under his hand, when in his discretion he shall think 

 fit, to any constable or police officer, to enter, with such assist- 

 ance as may be found necessary, into such house, office, room, 

 or place, and, if necessary, to use force for making such entry, 

 whether by breaking open doors, or otherwise, and to arrest, 

 search, and bring before a justice of the peace all such persons 

 found therein, and to seize all lists, cards, or other documents 

 relating to racing or betting found in such house or premises; 

 and any such warrant may be according to the form given in 

 the first schedule annexed to the beforementioned Act "to 

 amend the law concerning games and A\agers." 



12. If any superintendent belonging to the metropolitan 

 police force shall report in writing to the commissioners of 

 police of the metropolis that there are good grounds for believ- 

 ing and that he does believe that any house, office, room, or 

 place within the metropolitan police district is kept or used as 

 a betting house or office, contrary to this Act, it shall be lawful 

 for either of the said commissioners by order in writing to 

 authorize the superintendent to enter any such house, office, 

 room, or place, with such constables as shall be directed by the 

 commissioners to accompany him, and, if necessary to use force 

 for the purpose of effecting such entry, whether by breaking 

 open doors or otherwise, and to cake into custody all persons 

 who shall be found therein, and to seize all lists, cards, or other 

 documents relating to racing or betting found in such house or 

 premises. 



13. Any person who shall be summarily convicted under this 

 Act may appeal to the next general or quarter session of the 

 peace (b) . ■ . . ; and it shall be lawful for the magistrate or 

 justices by whom such conviction shall have been made, to bind 

 over any party who shall have made information against the party 

 convicted, and any witnesses who shall have been examined, in 

 sufficient recognizances to attend and be examined at the hear- 

 ing of such appeal ; and every such witness, on producing a 

 certificate of being so bound under the hand of the said magis- 

 trate or justices, shall be allowed compensation for his or her 

 time, trouble, and expenses in attending the appeal, which com- 

 pensation shall be paid in the first instance by the treasurer of 

 the county or place in like manner as iu cases of misdemeanor 



(i) The omitted portion of this 

 section is repealed by the Summary 

 Jurisdiction Act, 1884, as having 



been replaced by s. 31 of the Act of 

 1879, as amended by the Act of 

 1884. 



