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ABSTRACT.

Abstract of Acts of Parliament

RELATIVE TO

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HORSE RACING.

HAT from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty, no person or persons whatsoever shall enter, start, or run any horse, mare, or gelding, for any Plate, Prize, Sum of Money, or other thing, unless such horse, mare, or gelding, shall be truly and bona fide the property of, and belonging to, such person so entering, starting, or running the same horse, mare, or gelding: nor shall any one person enter and start more than one horse, mare, or gelding, for one and the same Plate, Prize, Sum of Money, or other thing; and in case any person or persons shall, after the said twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty, enter, start, or run any horse, mare, or gelding, not being the property, truly and bona fide, of such person so entering, starting, or running the same for any Plate, Prize, Sum of Money, or other thing, the said horse, mare, or gelding, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited; to be sued for and recovered, and disposed of in manner as is hereafter mentioned; and in case any person or persons shall enter and start more than one horse, mare, or gelding, for one and the same Plate, VOL. XXXVII. Prize,

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Prize, Sum of Money, or other thing; every such horse, mare, or gelding, other than the first entered horse, mare, or gelding, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited; to be sued for and recovered, and disposed of in manner as hereinafter is mentioned.

Any person that shall enter, start, or run, a horse, mare, or gelding, for less value than fifty pounds, forfeits the sum of two hundred pounds.

Every person that shall print, publish, advertise, or proclaim any money, or other thing to be run for, of less value than fifty pounds, forfeits the sum of one hundred pounds.

Provided, That every Race that shall be thereafter run for any Plate, Prize, or Sum of Money, be begun and ended in one day.

Horses may run for any sum on Newmarket-heath, in the counties of Cambridge and Suffolk, and Black Hambleton, in the county of York, without incurring any penalty.

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty, all and every Sum and Sums of Money to be paid for entering of any horse, mare, or gelding, to start for any Plate, Prize, Sum of Money, or other thing, shall go and be paid to the second best horse, mare, or gelding, which shall start or run for such Piate, Prize, or Sum of Money, as aforesaid.

Provided also, That nothing therein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent the starting or running any horse, mare, or gelding, for any Plate, Prize, or other thing or things issuing out of or paid for by, the rents, issues, and profits, of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments; or of, or by, the interest of any Sum or Sums of Money, chargeable with the same, or appropriated for that purpose.

DUTY

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