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and paid to the Queen's and lord treasurer's remem- 

 brancer on behalf of her majesty : 

 (4) The thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the principal 

 Act shall not apply to Scotland, but it shall be com- 

 petent to any person who is convicted under this Act 

 or the principal Act to appeal against such conviction 

 to the high court of justiciary, in the manner pre- 

 scribed by such of the provisions of tiie Act of the 

 twentieth year of the reign of King George the 

 Second, chapter forty-three, and any Acts amending 

 the same, as relate to appeals in matters criminal, and 

 by and under the rules, limitations, convictions, and 

 restrictions contained in the said provisions. 



17 & 18 ViOT. Cap. 38. 

 An Act for the Suppression of Gaming Houses. 



Whereas divers statutes have been made from time to time 

 for the prevention of unlawful gaming ; and particularly by 

 the Act of the session holden in the eighth and ninth years ot S & 9 Vict. 

 her majesty, chapter one hundred and nine, powers are given '^- 109. 

 ±0 justices of the peace in places beyond the metropolitan 

 police district to authorize constables, and to either of the 

 commissioners of police within such district to authorize 

 superintendents belonging to the metropolitan police force, 

 to enter houses suspected to be kept as common gaming 

 houses, and to arrest all persons found therein : and it is 

 thereby enacted, that where any cards, dice, balls, counters, 

 tables or other instruments of gaming used in playing any 

 unlawful game shall be found in any house, room or place 

 suspected to be used as a common gaming house, and entered 

 under a warrant or order issued under the provisions of that 

 Act, or about the person of any of those who shall be found 

 therein, it shall be evidence, until the contrary be made to 

 appear, that such house, room or place is used as a common 

 gaming house, and that the persons found in the room or 

 place where such tables or instruments of gaming shall have 

 been found were playing therein : and whereas the keepers 

 of common gaming houses contrive, by fortifying the entrances 

 to such houses, or by other means, to keep out the officers 

 authorized to enter the same until the instruments of gaming 

 have been removed or destroyed, so that no sufficient evidence 

 can be obtained to convict the oiFenders, who are thereby 

 encouraged to persist in the violation of the law ; and whereas 

 it is expedient that the law shall be made more efficient for 



