Chapter XXXII: Section 7: enacts that “any person exhibiting, publishing, or causing to

be exhibited or published, any placard, handbill, card, writing, sign or advertisement, that any house, office, room or place is kept or used for the purpose of making bets or wagers in manner aforesaid, or for the purpose of exhibiting lists for betting, or for the purpose of inducing any person to resort to such house, &c., for the purpose of making bets, or any person who on behalf of the owner or occupier of such house, &c., who shall invite other persons to resort thereto for the purpose of betting, shall be liable to a penalty of £50 or two months’ imprisonment.”

What persons are forbidden by this section to advertise is: (1) That a house or place is kept for the kind of betting mentioned in a former part of the Act, _i.e._, Section 1. So that to understand what kind of betting it is that must not be advertised, reference must be made to the cases that have been decided thereon. [Sidenote: Betting lists.] (2) People must not advertise their houses as exhibiting betting lists—that is, people may keep lists of races, current odds, &c., but not advertise the fact. This should be borne in mind by hotel and club proprietors, and all persons whose premises are furnished by means of the “tape” with the latest information as to races. Betting lists may be seized by officers entering premises by virtue of section 11 of 16 & 17 Vict., which speaks of lists and “all documents relating to betting,” and also they are expressly mentioned in section 12 of the same Act, which treats of the powers of the Metropolitan Police.

[Sidenote: Act did not extend to Scotland.]

By section 20, Scotland is expressly excluded from the provisions of the Act, consequently not only was that country inundated with members of the betting fraternity who could not carry on their business in this country, but seeing that betting houses in Scotland were not illegal,