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found gaming in any public market, fair, thoroughfare or street situated within the limits to which this Act shall come into force. Such person, when apprehended, shall be brought by the police officer aforesaid without delay before a Magistrate. and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees. or to imprisonment, either simple or rigorous, for any term not exceeding one month. Such polie officer may seize all kinds of instruments of gaming found on search of the person of those whom he shall arrest in such public place, and the Magistrate may, on conviction of the person apprehended, order such instruments to be forthwith destroyed. A lottery or a lottery office may, with the sanction of the Council of Administration be opened, Whoever. without chaining such sanction of the Council of Administration. opens such lottery office or carries on lottery in any place shall