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Penalty on selling cards without stamped wrappers.
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32. If any maker of cards shall remove or send or deliver out any cards from his house or premises, or the house or place in which they were made or completed (except for exportation as allowed by this Act), the same not being in packs enclosed in wrappers in manner aforesaid, or if any person, whether a maker of cards or not, and whether licensed or not, shall sell any cards, not being a pack of cards enclosed in a wrapper as by this Act is required, he shall forfeit, if he be a maker of cards, the sum of one hundred pounds, and if he be not a maker of cards, the sum of twenty pounds; and moreover, for every pack of cards which any such person shall sell or send or deliver out not enclosed in a wrapper as aforesaid, he shall forfeit the further sum of five pounds; and all cards found in any house or place whatever (except on the premises of a licensed maker specified in his licence) which shall be kept or intended for sale, or which shall be found on the premises or in the possession of any person who shall sell cards, and which shall not be in separate packs enclosed in wrappers as aforesaid, shall be forfeited; and the same, and also all wrappers found in any house or place whatsoever which shall have been used for enclosing cards, and removed or got off therefrom, may be taken and carried away by any officer of Inland Revenue, and be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Commissioners shall direct; and for the purposes of such seizure it shall be lawful for any such officer, under the authority of a warrant for that purpose specially granted by any two of the Commissioners or any justice of the peace, to enter in the day-time any house or place in which there shall be reason to suspect that any cards not enclosed in stamped wrappers, or any wrappers that have been used as aforesaid, are deposited or kept, and to search for the same; and if necessary, such officer may break open the door of any room or closet, or any box, trunk, or case in which any such cards or wrappers are suspected to be contained; and all cards so found shall be deemed to be kept and intended for sale, unless the contrary shall be proved.
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