Chapter XXXIII: Section 7: did not make advertisements of such places illegal

Consequently, many of the daily papers made large sums by inserting such advertisements, which, no doubt, acted as a powerful incentive to certain members of the community to invest their money across the border. As Mr. Anderson observed, in bringing his Bill before the House of Commons,[396] that England had acted towards Scotland like the humane gardener towards his neighbour by sending over to him all his vermin. The Act which is known as Anderson’s Act, 37 Vict., c. 15, is described as “an Act to be construed as one with the principal Act of 1853 and to be cited together as the Betting Acts.”