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under the provisions of an Act passed in the seventh year of 

 the reigu of King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act for 7 & 8 Geo. 4 

 improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in England;" <=• 28. 

 and in case any such appeal shall be dismissed and the order or 

 conviction af&rmed, the reasonable expenses of all such wit- 

 nesses attending as aforesaid, to be ascertained by the court, 

 shall be repaid to the said treasurer by the appellant. 



14. No information, conviction, or judgment of the justices Certiorari 

 in general or quarter sessions shall be removed by certiorari taken away, 

 into the Court of Queen's Bench (c). 



15. Distress not unlawful for want of form (rZ)]. 



16. Tender of amends, &c. (e)]. 



17. [Limitation of actions (/)]. 



18. In Ireland the term " metropolitan police force," and the 

 terms " commissioners of the police of the metropolis," and the 

 terms " metropolitan police district," shall mean and include 

 respectively the Dublin metropolitan police force, the commis- 

 sioners of police of Dublin metropolis, and the police district of 

 Dublin metropolis. 



19. This Act shall commence and come into operation on 

 the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and 

 fifty-three. 



Interpretation 

 of terms. 



Commence- 

 ment of Act. 



37 Vict. Cap. 15. 



An Act to amend the Act of sixteenth and seventeenth Victoria, 

 chapter one hundred and nineteen, intitided " An Act for the 

 Suppression of Betting Houses." 



Whereas it is expedient to amend the Act of the session of 

 the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of her present 

 majesty, chapter one hundred and nineteen, intituled " An Act 

 for the Suppression of Betting Houses," and to extend the 

 provisions of such Act to Scotland : 



Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and 

 with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, 

 and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the 

 authority of the same, as follows : 



1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Act of the Act to be 

 session of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of construed with 

 her present majesty, chapter one hundred and nineteen, inti- ^ j^g" * 



(c) The previous portion of this 

 section, which provided against any 

 objection in matter of form, was 

 repealed by the Summary Jurisdiction 

 Act, 1884. 



(d) This section was repealed by 



the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1884. 



(e) This section and s. 17, infra, 

 were repealed by the Statute Law 

 Eevisiou Act, 1894. See Public 

 Authorities Protection Act, 1893. 



(/) See note {e), supra. 



