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Penalty for keeping places for bearbaiting, cock-fighting, &c.
Penalty on persons found in such places.
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8. Every person who shall keep or use or act in the management of any house, room, pit, or other place within the said police district for the purpose of fighting or baiting lions, bears, badgers, cocks, dogs, or other animals, shall be liable to a penalty not more than five pounds, or, in the discretion of the magistrate, may be committed to the house of correction, with or without hard labour, for a time not more than one calendar month; and it shall be lawful for the commissioners of police, by order in writing, to authorize any superintendent belonging to the Dublin police, with such constables as he shall think necessary, to enter any premises kept or used for any of the purposes aforesaid, and take into custody all persons who shall be found therein without lawful excuse, and every person so found shall be liable to a penalty not more than five shillings; and a conviction under this Act of this offence shall not exempt the owner, keeper, or manager of any such house, room, pit, or place from any penalty or penal consequences to which he may be liable for the nuisance thereby occasioned.
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