LOTTERIES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 736, 26 May 1876, Page 2

LOTTERIES.

—o— The following section of tho Town ami Country Ordinance, 1802 is published for general information, viz,: — “XXIIL—- If any person shall establish commerce or bo a partner orotherwise beneficially interested in any lottery or any scheme by which prizes, whether of money or of any other matter or thing, shall bo gained, drawn, or thrown for or competed for by lot dice or any other mode of chance, or shall sell or dispose qf any tickets or other means by which permission or authority is gained or given to any person to throw for, compete or have any interest in any such lottery or scheme, or shall under any pretence or by means of any device sell or dispose of or endeavor to sell or dispose of any lands, goods, wares, or merchandise by means of aml game, either of skill or chance., every such person being duly convicted thereof shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, and for any second offence, besides such pen alty, shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding six months; But this provision shall not apply to the distribution of any property amongst tho owners thereof or to any raffle of any work purely of art, of whicli a notice having tho name and address of the person intending to hold the same subscribed thereto shall have been given to the Superintendent, if the Superintendent shall not within one week after such notice prohibit such raffle by notice sent by post, or in any other manner according to the address so subscribed by such person.”