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was given to the officers employed by the coma warrant being granted, to missio: open the doors of the suspected places, enter and seize all "cards, dice, tools, rials with which they are made."


 * k, to have

payment of one hai th.:a atalad or stamped accordingly. All cards

If we add to the facts already stated, that the term over which the duty upon playing-

of any person

lid

ira-

6

not

to be

m

brought to

fur Kile after June, 171 lj

end to be charged with play-

ing-cards were to be expo '.iy

in

unless

any

»ns

of

potted f each

or painted side (face; pack. nders were ma

dty of ed cards found

in their possession.

to

made

felony,

nterfeit or forge punishable the seals, stamps or marks which denoted the out eighty years ago

m

the punish:

actually inflicted

Harding, who

uiiied

engraved an ace of

The

card -maker.

the order of a

d from the he would have

car lility,

shared the engraver's

fate.

By

the same Act

permitting the search

were extended and the notices reby card-makers, and the clauses reL u removal of unstamped caids, pare amended and made more striuiue officers

ises



cards was to remain in force, was extended from thirty-two years to perpetuity, we shall s an accurate epitome of the principal points connected with the duty on playingcards to the end of the reign of George J., and In the twenty-ninth year for some time after. of the reign of George II. (17 5(3), an additional duty of sixpence a pack was imposed on The opportunity was taken, as playing-cards. usual, to frame measures in expectation of

preventing the fraudulent evasions of the duty which still obtained. It transpired that great frauds were committed under pretence that cards were manufactured for exportation, cards for exportation being exempt from duty. It was therefore enacted that all playing-cards intended for exportation should be distinguished by a particular wrapper, and that one card in each export pack should be marked on

the face with a special stamp.

and stamped, as

be used in Great Britain under a penalty of 201. 201. penalty was also attached to the selling

A

and buying of any covers and

revenu.

con tin a

f last

se.-

on the

y successive Lb, down to

mud

by some relation to

d

that personsused, placed or the pur-

P°*° °f •*'

i i

ttcks,

labels

which had

been already used.

It appears, too, that the trick of selling slightly soiled playing-cards, as waste-cards, was largely practised to the de-

triment of the revenue. consisted of cards so

frauds

Cards wrapped were not to

for exportation,

These soiled cards

damaged

in the process of

manufacture as to be rejected by the cardmakers. They were purchased for a few pence per pound, chiefly by Jew speculators, who sorted them and disposed of them at a cheap rate. In order to put a stop to the system, all

" persons disposing of cards, commonly called waste cards," were required before sale to " mark the back or plain side of every painted or pictured card in such manner as to I

the

same

be used in play." In the reign of George III. no unfit to

than

less

irliament • i

>

cards and dice. ds,

perm,

abuse

and

wm

to

—

to

All this legislation additional d I

impose

circumvent the evaders than suspected fchi

c.

It

tore

apered with, !

plan Wl

i.

The

A uew I

ar the

when

mi it

and after

t!

was suspect which the