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Penalty on Persons keeping Places for baiting Animals; and on Persons found therein.
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LXXV. Every Person who within the Town keeps or acts in the Management of any House or Place for the Purpose of fighting, baiting, or worrying any Animals, shall be liable to a Penalty of not more than Five Pounds, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate before whom he is convicted, to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for a Time not exceeding One Month; and the Commissioners may, by Order in Writing, authorize the Officer of Police, with such Constables as he thinks necessary, to enter any Premises kept or used for any of the Purposes aforesaid, and take into Custody all Persons found therein without lawful Excuse, and every Person so found shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Shillings; and a Conviction for this Offence shall not exempt the Owner, Keeper, or Manager of any such House, Room, Pit, or Place from any penal Consequence to which he is liable for the Nuisance there by occasioned.
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