By 18 George II., c. 34, secs. 1 and 2 impose similar penalties in respect of setting up a house or place for or allowing roly-poly, or playing thereat.[[285]]
42 Geo. III., c. 119, Littlegoes declared to be lotteries.
By 42 George III., c. 119, section 1, all games or lotteries called “Littlegoes” are declared to be public nuisances.
Penalty £500 for keeping a lottery.
By section 2 any person keeping any office or place to exercise, show, or expose, to be drawn or thrown at by dice lots, cards, balls, numbers, or figures, or any other contrivance, any lottery called a littlego or any other lottery, or any person suffering the same to be carried on in his or her house, is made liable to a penalty of £500.
Section 3. Persons not proceeded against for such penalties may be convicted as rogues and vagabonds within the meaning of 17 and 27 George II.
Section 4. Power is given to any justice of the peace upon information on oath to issue a warrant authorising any person (but if by night then in the presence of a constable) to break open and enter any house or place where they have information of any offence being committed within this Act, |Persons aiding and abetting in lotteries.| and to apprehend all offenders and all persons aiding and abetting in any such offence. The latter are punishable as rogues and vagabonds.
The section also provides that persons obstructing any such officer in the execution of his duty shall be liable to be “fined, imprisoned, and publicly whipped.”
Section 4. Persons employing others in carrying on such lotteries to be deemed rogues and vagabonds.
Section 5. No person is to agree to pay money or to deliver goods on any event or contingency relative to the drawing of any tickets, lots, or numbers in any such lottery under penalty of £100.