Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th October 1789 - 5th December 1795

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October 1792.

Receiving the Money upon them and that in this way the most pernicious
mode of Insuring is carried on to a great extent, and the penalties expressed
in the several Acts of Parliament made and now in force against such
illegal Insurances and Dealing in Chances more easily evaded This
Court doth therefore give Notice to and warn all Persons Licensed to keep
Alehouses or common Victualling Houses within the said County not to
permit or suffer such illegal and pernicious practices to be carried on in their
Houses Outhouses or any part of their Premises, but to be vigilant and to
use their utmost endeavours to prevent the same, and to bring Offenders
who shall be guilty of such illegal proceedings to Justice: And that no
Licensed Alehouse Keepers or Victuallers may be unacquainted with their
situation in this respect, it is thought proper to observe that by the terms of
the Recognizance entered into by them at the time of their Licences granted
they are bound to keep and maintain good Order and Rule and to suffer no
Disorders or unlawful Games to be used in their Houses, Out Houses or
Premises; and that by a Statute made in the Twenty sixth year of his late
Majesty King George the Second It is amongst other things Enacted That
any Justice of the Peace of any County wherein such License shall be granted
upon complaint that such Licensed Person hath committed any Act or
Misdemeanour , whereby the Recognizance may be forfeited or the condition
broken may by Summons under his Hand and Seal require the Person so
complained of to appear at the next General or Quarter Session to answer
the matter of such complaint; and if it shall be found at such Session that the
Person complained of hath done any Act whereby the condition of his Recognizer
is broken, the Court shall adjudge such Person Guilty of the Breach of such
Recognizance and order the same to be Estreated into the Exchequer; and the
person, the condition of whose Recognizance shall be adjudged to be broken
and forfeited, shall be utterly disabled to sell any Ale Beer or Spiritous
Liquors for the space of Three years, and any Licence granted or to be granted
to such Person during such term shall be void and of none effect.

By adjournment same day

The following Representaion of the Grand Jury being Read
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