Prevention of Gaming (Scotland) Act 1869
WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for punishing idle and disorderly persons guilty of gaming, or of having in their possession instruments of gaming, in public places in Scotland: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: