The penalty for keeping an unlicensed public billiard room is very severe, as the Act provides that in addition to the risk of a charge of keeping a common gaming house, the offender is liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every day on which such billiard table, bagatelle board, or instrument shall be used, as shall be adjudged by the magistrate or justices before whom he shall be convicted, or in their discretion he may be committed to prison, with or without hard labour, up to one calendar month.