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Penalty on persons exhibiting placards or advertising betting houses. 7. Any person exhibiting or publishing or causing to be exhibited or published any placard, handbill, card, writing, sign, or advertisement, whereby it shall be made to appear that any house, office, room, or place is opened, kept, or used for the purpose of making bets or wagers, in manner aforesaid, or for the purpose of exhibiting lists for betting, or with intent to induce any person to resort to such house, office, room, or place for the purpose of making bets or wagers, in manner aforesaid, or any person who, on behalf of the owner or occupier of any such house, office, room, or place, or person using the same, shall invite other persons to resort thereto for the purpose of making bets or wagers, in manner aforesaid, shall, upon summary conviction thereof before two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding thirty pounds, and may be further adjudged by such justices to pay such costs attending such conviction as to the said justices shall seem reasonable, and on the nonpayment of such penalty and costs, or in the first instance, if to such justices it shall seem fit, may be committed to [prison]... for any time not exceeding two calendar months. S.8 rep. by SLR 1980. S.9 rep. by 1954 c.9 (NI) s.29 sch.7
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