No Objection taken away. Distress not Tender of Limitation of Actions. "tration of Criminal Justice in England;" and in case any such Appeal shall be dismissed and the Order or Conviction affirmed, the reasonable Expenses of all such Witnesses attending as aforesaid, to be ascertained by the Court, shall be repaid to the said Treasurer by the Appellant. 5 XIV. On any such Appeal no Objection shall be allowed to the Information whereon the Conviction has taken place, or to such Conviction, on any Matter of Form or on any Insufficiency of Statement, provided it shall appear to the Justices in Quarter Sessions that the Defendant has been sufficiently informed of the Charge intended to 10 be made against him, and that such Conviction was proper on the Merits of the Case; and no Information, Conviction, or Judgment of the Justices in General or Quarter Sessions shall be removed by Certiorari into the Court of Queen's Bench. XV. When any Distress shall be made for any Money to be levied 15 by virtue of the Warrant of any Justice under this Act, the Distress shall not be deemed unlawful, nor shall any Party making the same be deemed a Trespasser, on account of any Defect or Want of Form in the Information, Summons, Warrant of Apprehension, Conviction, Warrant of Distress, or other Proceeding relating thereto, nor shall 20 such Party be deemed a Trespasser from the Beginning on account of any Irregularity which shall be afterwards committed by him, but all Persons aggrieved by such Defect or Irregularity may recover full Satisfaction for the special Damage by an Action on the Case in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record. 25 XVI. No Plaintiff shall recover in any Action for any Irregularity, Trespass, or other wrongful Proceeding made or committed in the Execution of this Act, or in, under, or by virtue of any Authority hereby given, if Tender of sufficient Amends shall have been made by or on behalf of the Party who shall have committed such Irregu- 30 larity, Trespass, or other wrongful Proceeding before such Action brought, and in case no Tender shall have been made it shall be lawful for the Defendant in any such Action, by Leave of the Court where such Action shall depend, at any Time before Issue joined to pay into Court such Sum of Money as he shall think fit, whereupon 35 such Proceeding, Order, and Adjudication shall be had and made in and by such Court as in other Actions where Defendants are allowed to pay Money into Court. XVII. No Action, Suit, or Information, or any other Proceeding, of what Nature soever, shall be brought against any Person for anything 40 done done or omitted to be done in pursuance of this Act, or in the Execution of the Authorities under this Act, unless Notice in Writing shall be given by the Party intending to prosecute such Suit, Information, or other Proceeding to the intended Defendant 5 One Calendar Month at least before prosecuting the same, nor unless such Action, Suit, Information, or other Proceeding shall be brought or commenced within Three Calendar Months next after the Act or Omission complained of, or in case there shall be a Continuation of Damage then within Three Calendar Months next after the doing such Damage shall have ceased. 10 15 tion. XVIII. In Ireland the Term "Metropolitan Police Force," and the InterpretaTerms "Commissioners of the Police of the Metropolis," and the Terms "Metropolitan Police District" shall mean and include respectively the Dublin Metropolitan Police Force, the Commissioners of Police of Dublin Metropolis, and the Police District of Dublin Metropolis. XIX. This Act shall commence and come into operation on the Commence- ment of Act. H A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] FOR The Suppression of Betting Houses. W HEREAS a kind of Gaming has of late sprung up tending Preamble. by the opening of Places called Betting Houses or Offices, and the receiving of Money in advance by the Owners or Occupiers of such Houses or Offices, or by other Persons acting on their Behalf, 5 on their Promises to pay Money on Events of Horse Races and the like Contingencies: For the Suppression thereof be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, 10 as follows: &c. to be Owner or sons. I. No House, Office, Room, or other Place shall be opened, kept, No House, or used for the Purpose of the Owner, Occupier, or Keeper thereof, kept for Puror any Person using the same, or any Person procured or employed pose of by or acting for or on behalf of such Owner, Occupier, or Keeper, Occupier 15 or Person using the same, or of any Person having the Care or betting with Management or in any Manner conducting the Business thereof other Perbetting with Persons resorting thereto; or for the Purpose of any Money or valuable Thing being received by or on behalf of such Owner, Occupier, Keeper, or Person as aforesaid as or for the 20 Consideration for any Assurance, Undertaking, Promise, or Agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any Money or valuable Thing on any Event or Contingency of or relating to any Horse Race, or other Race, Fight, Game, Sport, or Exercise 852. A |