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Freemen of Vintners Company subject to provisions.
2° & 3° VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.
taking such Recognizance shall forthwith transmit the same to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to the end that the same may be filed in the said Court, and such further Directions may be given thereon as to such Secretary of State may seem fit.
XLI. And be it declared and enacted, That after the passing of this Act every Person who by reason of his or her Freedom of the Mystery or Craft of Vintners of the City of London, or of any Right or Privilege of such Mystery, shall claim to be entitled to sell Foreign Wine by Retail, to be drunk or consumed on the Premises, within the Metropolitan Police District, without Licence, shall be subject to all the Provisions of all Acts made for the Regulation of Persons so licensed (except those Provisions which require or refer to the taking out of a Licence either from any Justice of the Peace or from the Commissioners of Excise), and, in the Case of any Offence committed by him or her against the Tenor of the Licence granted under the Provisions of any Act for the Sale of exciseable Liquors by Retail, to be drunk or consumed on the Premises, shall be liable to be dealt with, proceeded against, and punished in like Manner as if selling Wine by Licence and not by virtue of such Claim or Privilege.
Public
XLII. And be it enacted, That no Licensed Victualler or other Person shall open his House within the Metropolitan Police District, for the Sale of Wine, Spirits, Beer, or other fermented or distilled Liquors, on Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, before the Hour of One in the Afternoon, except Refreshment for Travellers.
Publicans prohibited from supplying Liquors to Persons under Sixteen Years of Age.
XLIII. And be it enacted, That every Person licensed to deal in exciseable Liquors within the said District who shall knowingly supply any Sort of distilled exciseable Liquor to any Boy or Girl apparently under the Age of Sixteen Years to be drunk upon the Premises, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Twenty Shillings, and upon Conviction of a Second Offence shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Forty Shillings, and upon Conviction of a Third Offence shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds.
Regulations of other Houses of public Resort.
XLIV. And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions made by Law for preventing disorderly Conduct in the Houses of Licensed Victuallers be extended to other Houses of public Resort: Be it enacted, That every Person who shall have or keep any House, Shop, Room, or Place of public Resort within the Metropolitan Police District, wherein Provisions, Liquors, or Refreshments of any Kind shall be sold or consumed, (whether the same shall be kept or retailed therein or procured elsewhere,) and who shall wilfully or knowingly permit Drunkenness or other disorderly Conduct in such House, Shop, Room, or Place, or knowingly suffer any unlawful Games or any Gaming whatsoever therein, or knowingly permit or suffer Prostitutes or Persons of notoriously bad Character to meet together and remain therein, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty of not more than Five Pounds: Provided always, that if the Offender be a Licensed Victualler, or licensed to sell Beer by Retail to be drunk on the Premises, this Enactment shall not be construed to exempt him from the Penalties or penal Consequences to which he may be liable for committing an Offence against the Tenor of the Licence to him granted.
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XLV. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall make or use or allow to be made or used any internal Communication between any House, Shop, Room, or Place of public Resort not licensed for the Sale of Wine, Spirits, Beer, or other exciseable Articles within the said District, and any House, Shop, Room, or Place licensed for the Sale of Wine, Spirits, Beer, or other exciseable Articles, or in which Wine is sold by a free Vintner, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Ten Pounds for every Day that such Communication shall be open.
Theatres
XLVI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Police, by Order in Writing, to authorize any Superintendent belonging to the Metropolitan Police, with such Constables as he may think necessary, to enter into any House or Room kept or used within the said District for Stageplays or Dramatic Entertainments into which Admission is obtained by Payment of Money and which is not a licensed Theatre, at any Time when the same shall be open for the Reception of Persons resorting thereto, and to take into Custody all Persons who shall be found therein without lawful Excuse; and every Person keeping, using, or knowingly letting any House or other Tenement for the Purpose of being used as an unlicensed Theatre shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Twenty Pounds, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate, may be committed to the House of Correction, with or without Hard Labour, for a Time not more than Two Calendar Months; and every Person performing or being therein without lawful Excuse shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Forty Shillings; and a Conviction under this Act for this Offence shall not exempt the Owner, Keeper, or Manager of any such House, Room, or Tenement from any Penalty or penal Consequences to which he may be liable for keeping a disorderly House, or for the Nuisance thereby occasioned.
XLVII. And be it enacted, That every Person who within the Metropolitan Police District shall keep or use, or act in the Management of any House, Room, Pit, or other Place for the Purpose of fighting or baiting Lions, Bears, Badgers, Cocks, Dogs, or other Animals, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate, may be committed to the House of Correction, with or without Hard Labour, for a Time not more than One Calendar Month; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Police, by Order in Writing, to authorize any Superintendent belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force, with such Constables as he shall think necessary, to enter any Premises kept or used for any of the Purposes aforesaid, and take into Custody all Persons who shall be found therein without lawful Excuse; and every Person so found shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Shillings; and a Conviction under this Act of this Offence shall not exempt the Owner, Keeper, or Manager of any such House, Room, Pit, or Place from any Penalty or penal Consequence to which he may be liable for the Nuisance thereby occasioned.
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