A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
"3. That besides the above-mentioned bond, all licensed
Lottery Office Keepers shall, previous to the drawing of
each Lottery, make oath before a Magistrate, that they will
not, in the course of the ensuing Lottery, be concerned,
either directly or indirectly, in setting up any illegal
offices for the sale of tickets, or insurance of numbers,
contrary to law: Which affidavit shall be recorded, and a
certificate thereof shall be indorsed on the licence
without which it shall not be valid. And that the affidavit
may be produced in evidence, against persons convicted of
illegally insuring; who shall in that event be liable to the
punishment attached to perjury, and of course, to the
ignominy of the pillory and imprisonment.
"4. That all peace-officers, constables, headboroughs, or
others, lawfully authorised to execute the warrants of
Magistrates, who shall receive any gratuity, or sum of money
from illegal Lottery Insurers, or from any person or
persons, in consideration of any expected services in
screening such offenders from detection or punishment,
shall, on conviction, be rendered infamous, and incapable of
ever serving any public office; and be punished by fines,
imprisonment, or the pillory, as the Court, before whom the
offence is tried, shall see proper.
"5. That all persons who shall be convicted of _paying
money_ on any contract for the benefit arising from the
drawing of any Lottery Ticket, insured upon any contingency
(not being in possession of the original ticket, or a legal
share thereof) shall forfeit £.20 for every offence, to be
levied by distress, &c.
"6. That an abstract of the penalties inflicted by law on
persons insuring, or taking illegal insurances in the
Lottery, shall be read every Sunday, in all churches,
chapels, meeting-houses, and other places of public worship,
during the drawing of the Irish and English Lotteries
respectively; with a short exhortation, warning the people
of the consequences of offending against the law: And that a
copy of the same shall be pasted up in different parts of
Guildhall, and constantly replaced during the drawing of the
Lottery; and also at all the licensed Lottery Offices within
the Metropolis.
"7. That a reward, not exceeding £.50 be paid to any person
employed as a clerk or servant in any illegal Lottery
Office, who shall be the means of convicting the actual or
principal proprietor or proprietors of the said office, who
shall not appear themselves in the management; also a sum
not exceeding £.40 on conviction of a known and acting
proprietor; and a sum not exceeding £.10 on conviction of
any clerk or manager, not being partners.
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