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