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Penalty if persons are found tippling or gaming at prohibited hours, and on persons found drunk.
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12. Every person selling or licensed to sell spirits, wine, or beer by retail, in whose house or place any person shall be found to be or to have been recently drinking, tippling, or gaming at any hour or time at which the sale of spirits or beer is prohibited by this Act, shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings; and any person found drunk at any hour of the day or night in any street, square, lane, road, way, or other public thoroughfare or place, shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five shillings, and in default of payment thereof shall and may be committed to the common gaol of the county or place, or to any neighbouring house of correction or bridewell, for any time not less than twelve nor more than forty-eight hours; and every person so found drunk in any street, square, lane, road, way, or other public thoroughfare or place, shall and lawfully may be apprehended by any justice, constable, peace officer, churchwarden, or overseer as aforesaid, and forthwith carried and conveyed before any justice of the peace within whose jurisdiction he shall be so found, to be dealt with according to law.
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