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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29

Penalty for stage entertainments offensive to morals

Penalty for stage entertainments offensive to morals.

5. If any person shall act represent perform or exhibit or cause to be acted represented performed or exhibited in any theatre or other place as aforesaid any stage play or any act scene or entertainment of the stage as hereinbefore mentioned or any part thereof or any prologue or epilogue or part thereof of a lewd indecent or immoral description every such person so offending if the theatre or other place wherein the same has been acted represented performed or exhibited be without the written authority or license of the said Superintendent shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Fifty pounds over and above any separate penalty such person may have incurred under any other provision of this Ordinance and if the theatre or other place wherein the same has been acted represented performed or exhibited be duly licensed shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty pounds and the authority or license by or under which the said theatre or other place was opened shall become absolutely void.