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Rotation Office Litchfield Street
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Minutes of the Committee appointed to Examine into the Laws
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respecting Gaining and Gaming Houses
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Resolved it appears to this Committee that by the 18th. Geo: 2d.
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Cap. 34 the Laws then in being were found by Experience to be
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ineffectual to stop the pernicious practice of Gaming and that the
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remedy then applied was adding the Game of Roley Poley to the other
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Games prohibited by law and it also appearing to this Committee
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that Sir
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Commenting upon that and other
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acts respecting Gaming observes that particular descriptions will
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" ever be lame and deficient unless all Games of mere chance are
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" at once prohibited the Invention of Sharpers being surifter than the
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" punishment of the Law which only hants thern from one device
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" to another" Resolved that the following Clauses be submitted to the
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Consideration of Parliament as a remedy for the said Evil Vizt.
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Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent
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Majesty by and with the advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
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and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled
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and by the authority of the same that from and immediately after the
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passing of this act all and all manner of games to be determined
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by the Chance of Cards or Dice or of any Letter or Letters figure
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or figures Ball or Balls Number or Numbers Mark or
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Marks or of any Machine Engine or other Invention or Device
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of Chance by whatever Description or Denomination the same may
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