The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29
Penalty for permitting disorderly conduct and persons of bad character to assemble in theatres
Penalty for permitting disorderly conduct and persons of bad character to assemble in theatres.
7. If any person having or keeping any house room building garden or place licensed as a theatre in virtue of this Ordinance shall knowingly permit or suffer any lewd or disorderly conduct in any part thereof or any common prostitutes or persons of notoriously bad character to assemble therein or in any appurtenance thereof such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding twenty pounds and in the discretion of the convicting Justices the license by or under which the said theatre or other place was opened may be suspended for such time as they shall think fit or declared to be forfeited.