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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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644 16 CAR. 2, CAP. 7, GAMING.
aging of sundry idle, loose and disorderly Persons in their dis-
476 honest,* lewd, and dissolute Course of Life, and to the
circumventing, deceiving, cousening and debauching of many
of the younger Sort, both of the Nobility and Gentry, and oth-
ers, to the Loss of their precious Time, and the utter Ruin of
their Estates and Fortunes, and withdrawing them from noble
and landable Imployments and Exercises;
II. Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That if
any Person or Persons of any Degree or Quality whatsoever,
at. any Time or Times after the nine and twentieth Day of
September, which shall be in the Year of our Lord God one
thousand six hundred sixty and four, do, or shall by any Fraud,
Shift, Cousenage, Circumvention, Deceit, or unlawful Device,
or ill Practice whatsoever, in playing at or with Cards. Dice,
Tables, Tennis, Bowls, Kittles, Shovel-board; or in or by Cock-
fightings, Horse-races, Dog-matches, or Foot-races, or other
Pastimes, Game or Games whatsoever, or in, or by bearing
a Share, or Part of the Stakes, Wagers, or Adventures, or in,
or by betting on the Sides or Hands of such as do, or shall
play, act, ride or run, as aforesaid, win, obtain, or acquire to
him or themselves, or to any other or others, any Sum or Sums
of Money, or other valuable Thing or Things whatsoever. That
then every Person and Persons so offending, as aforesaid, shall
ipso facto forfeit and lose treble the Sum or Value of Money,
or other Thing or Things so won, gained, obtained or acquired;
the one Moiety thereof to our Sovereign Lord the King, his
Heirs and Successors; and the other Moiety thereof unto the
Person or Persons grieved, or who shall lose the Money, or other
Thing or Things so gained; so as every such Loser and Person
grieved in that Behalf, do, or shall prosecute and sue for the
same within six Kalendar Months next after such Play: (3)
And in Default of such Prosecution, the same other Moiety to
such Person or Persons as shall or will prosecute or sue for the
same within one Year next after the said six Months expired:
(4) And that the said Forfeiture shall or may be sued for, or
recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in
any of his Majesty's Courts at Westminster, wherein no Essoin,
Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed: (5) And that

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