Gaming Act, 1744

Persons playing shall incur the same penalties of 12 Geo. 2. c. 28.

2. And . . . if any person or persons whatsoever shall, after the said twenty-fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, play at the said game of roulet otherwise roly-poly, or at any game or games with cards or dice already prohibited by law, every such person or persons so offending shall also incur the pains and penalties, and be liable to such prosecution, as is directed in and by an Act made in the twelfth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled “An Act for the more effectual preventing excessive and deceitful gaming.”

[S. 3 rep. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109. s. 15.]