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<p n="1975">October 1792.</p>
<p n="1976">the Abuses which have been so much complained of, and to carry into<lb></lb>
execution the remedial acts that have been provided by the Legislature<lb></lb>
against <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1667">the Dealing</rs>
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in Chances, and the illegal Insurance of Lottery Tickets<lb></lb>
Practices which have the double ill effect of interrupting good Order and Police<lb></lb>
and of perverting the extensive resource of an optional Tax into a public evil<lb></lb>
All such means as can be pursued to point out the particular situations<lb></lb>
where these Abuses prevail, The Commissioners will take care to direct and to<lb></lb>
forward to the utmost of their power, and they confide in the support of the<lb></lb>
Magistracy for the expeditious and exemplary punishment of the Offenders <lb></lb>
But to one point, they are particularly disirous at the present period of<lb></lb>
requesting your immediate attention - They have received information that<lb></lb>
at almost all the Public Houses in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1668">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo1669">County of Middlesex</rs>
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of every description both of the highest and the lowest<lb></lb>
sort, a practice has prevailed of permitting the Subaltern Agents of various<lb></lb>
Lottery Offices (Licensed as well as Unlicensed) and also other Persons not<lb></lb>
immediately connected with any particular Offices, to continually resort<lb></lb>
there during the drawing of the State Lotteries for the purpose of inducing the<lb></lb>
various Companies at those places to engage in the illegal Insurance of <lb></lb>
Tickets, and this abuse it is evident cannot be carried on without the<lb></lb>
privity of the respective Publicans, as the Persons who are employ'd in<lb></lb>
negociating it, frequently hire Rooms in the several Houses for that purpose<lb></lb>
or else go through the different Apartments and openly attend with Books for<lb></lb>
entering such Insurance and receiving the Money upon them. In this way<lb></lb>
the most pernicious mode of Insuring because the lowest is carried on to a<lb></lb>
considerable extent and with a greater chance of Impunity from such obscure <lb></lb>
and unsettled Agents being less subject to the Penalties expressed in the<lb></lb>
several remedial Acts - In order therefore to prevent this pervading <lb></lb>
mischief, The Commissioners submit to your consideration, whether it may<lb></lb>
not be expedient to give public notice by Advertizement in the Papers, that<lb></lb>
upon information and proof of any Publican suffering these illegal practices<lb></lb>
to be carried on in his House, his Recognizance shall be forfeited and His <lb></lb>
Licence not renewed - Of the power of the Magistrates to punish the<lb></lb>
Publicans in this manner it is apprehended there can be no doubt, as by<lb></lb>
ancient and modern Statutes the restraint from using unlawful Games is an</p>
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