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ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1876 . 1433


Public Gambling.


4. Any person who shall keep any house, room , or place, boat, vessel, or any Penalty on
person keeping a
place on land or water, for public playing or gambling, or shall permit any person to public gambling
house.
[See Ord. 14 of
play within such house, room , boat, vessel, or any place on land or water as aforesaid , 1841, s. 1.j
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 [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted.]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, Penalty on
persons haunting
vessel, or any place on land or water as aforesaid, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding gambling houses.
[ vid, sec. 2.]
fifty dollars on conviction thereof in a summary manner. [ Repealed by Ordinance No.
27 of 1888, and new section substituted . ]
Person acting as
6. The person appearing, or acting as master, or as having the care aud manage master to be
ment of any such house, room , office, agency or place as aforesaid, shall be taken to be liable to penalty.
[Ibid, sec. 3.]
the keeper thereof, and shall be liable as such to the penalty aforesaid. [ Repealed by
Ordinance No. 27 of 1888, and new section substituted. ]
7. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable of Justice of the
Peace or Con
stable autho
the Police, duly authorised by warrant of any Justice of the Peace, to rised by war
rant to enter
enter, and if necessary to break into any house, room , boat , vessel , or any into house.
place, either on land or water, within which such Justice of the Peace and seize im
plements of
shall be credibly informed on oath, or shall have reasonable grounds of gambling,
money , &c .,
his own knowledge to suspect and believe that public gaming or playing which shall
be forfeited.
is or has been commonly carried on , and to arrest [ all persons within such [Ibid, sec. 4. ]
house, room, or place as aforesaid : Repealed by Ordinance No. 27 of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 .

8. The provisions of sections 17 , 18 , and 19 of Ordinance No 7 of Provisions of
secs. 17, 18, &
1866 shall apply to this Ordinance, and for the words " No. 14 of 1844 " 19, of Ord. 7
of 1866 to
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 . .....the whole.
No. 7 of 1866 , .. ....section 17 , the words
"No. 14 of 1844. "
No. 9 of 1867 .... ..... sections 18 , 19 , 20 ,
and 21 .