ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1876.
Public Gambling.
4. Any person who shall keep any house, room, or place, boat, vessel, or any place on land or water, for public playing or gambling, or shall permit any person to play within such house, room, boat, vessel, or any place on land or water as aforesaid, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars on conviction thereof in a summary manner. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]
5. Any person who shall use, haunt, or be found within such house, room, boat, vessel, or any place on land or water as aforesaid, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars on conviction thereof in a summary manner. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]
6. The person appearing, or acting as master, or as having the care and management of any such house, room, office, agency or place as aforesaid, shall be taken to be the keeper thereof, and shall be liable as such to the penalty aforesaid. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]
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Penalty on person keeping a public gambling house.
[See Ord. 14 of 1844, s. 1.]
Penalty on persons haunting gambling houses. [Ibid, sec. 2.]
Person acting as master to be liable to penalty. [Ibid, sec. 3.]
Peace or Constable authorised by warrant to enter into house, and seize implements of gambling, which shall [Ibid, sec. 4.] be forfeited.
7. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable of the Police, duly authorised by warrant of any Justice of the Peace, to enter, and if necessary to break into any house, room, boat, vessel, or any place, either on land or water, within which such Justice of the Peace shall be credibly informed on oath, or shall have reasonable grounds of his own knowledge to suspect and believe that public gaming or playing is or has been commonly carried on, and to arrest all persons within such house, room, or place as aforesaid: [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888 and new words substituted] and to seize all tables, dice, or other implements of gambling, or which shall be used as such, and also all monies or securities for money which shall be in actual use for the purpose of gambling, and which said implements of gambling, and money, or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be forfeited to Her Majesty's the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors.
secs. 17, 18, & 19, of Ord. 7 of 1866 to apply.
8. The provisions of sections 17, 18, and 19 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1866 shall apply to this Ordinance, and for the words "No. 14 of 1844" in section 17 of the said Ordinance hereinafter repealed, shall be substituted the number of this Ordinance.
9. The following Ordinance and portions of Ordinances are hereby repealed:-
No. 14 of 1844, No. 7 of 1866, No. 9 of 1867.....the whole.
...section 17, the words "No. 14 of 1844." ...sections 18, 19, 20, and 21.
ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1876.
Public Gambling.
4. Any person who shall keep any house, room, or place, boat, vessel, or any place on land or water, for public playing or gambling, or shall permit any person to play within such house, room, boat, vessel, or any place on land or water as aforesaid, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars on conviction thereof in a summary manner. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]
5. Any person who shall use, haunt, or be found within such house, room, boat, vessel, or any place on land or water as aforesaid, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars on conviction thereof in a summary manner. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]
6. The person appearing, or acting as master, or as having the care and manage- ment of any such house, room, office, agency or place as aforesaid, shall be taken to be the keeper thereof, and shall be liable as such to the penalty aforesaid. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]
1433
Penalty on person keeping a public gambling house.
[See Ord. 14 of 1844, s. 1.)
Penalty on
persons haunting gambling houses. [Ibid, sec. 2.]
Person acting as master to be
Bable to penalty. [Ibid, sec. 3.]
Peace or Con- stable autho- rised by war- rant to enter: into house, and seize im- plements of
gambling, which shall [Ibid, sec. 4.]
money, &c.:
be forfeited.
7. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable of Justice of the the Police, duly authorised by warrant of any Justice of the Peace, to enter, and if necessary to break into any house, room, boat, vessel, or any place, either on land or water, within which such Justice of the Peace shall be credibly informed on oath, or shall have reasonable grounds of his own knowledge to suspect and believe that public gaming or playing is or has been commonly carried on, and to arrest [all persons within such house, room, or place as aforesaid: Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888 and new words substituted] and to seize all tables, dice, or other implements of gambling, or which shall be used as such, and also all monies or securities for money which shall be in actual use for the purpose of gambling, and which said implements of gambling, and money, or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be forfeited to Her Majesty's the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors.
secs. 17, 18, & 19, of Ord. 7 of 1866 to
8. The provisions of sections 17, 18, and 19 of Ordinance No 7 of Provisions of 1866 shall apply to this Ordinance, and for the words "No. 14 of 1844" in section 17 of the said Ordinance hereinafter repealed, shall be apply. substituted the number of this Ordinance.
9. The following Ordinance and portions of Ordinances are hereby Repeal repealed:-
No. 14 of 1844, No. 7 of 1866,
No. 9 of 1867.....
.....the whole.
...section 17, the words
"No. 14 of 1844." ...sections 18, 19, 20,
and 21.
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