Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-07-01

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red and thirty eight of the Revised
Statutes, entitled 'Of offences against
public policy"
The People of the State of Wisconsin
represented IN Senate and assembly, do
enact as tolloaos:-
Section l. Every person who shall set
up or keep any table or gambling device,
commonly called A. B. c., Faro Bank,
E. 0. Roulette, Equality, or any kind of
gambling table or device adapted, de-
vised or designed for the purpose of
playing any game OF chance for money,
property, and shall induce, entiee or per-
NIT any person to bet or play, at or up
on any such gaming table or gambling
device or at or upon any game played
at or by means OF such table or device,
or on the side iof fort against the keeper
thereof, shall, on conviction, be adjudg-
ed guilty of a mistlsneaaor and punish
ed by imprisonment in county Jail not
less than three months nor more than
one year, and by fine not less than two
hundred dollars nor more than one thou
sand dollars.
Sec. 2. Every serson who. shall bet
any money or property, or play at or
upon any gaming table, bank or device
prohibited by the preceding section, or
who shall bet upon or play at any game
played at or by means of any such gam
ing table, bank or other device OH on
the side of or against the keeper there
of, shall on conviction, ;, be, adjudged.
guilty of a misdemeanor and punished
by fine not less than twenty. nor more
than fifty dollars, and in default of pay
ment shall be imprisoned ina county
jail not less than one month nor more
than three months.
Sec. 3. Every person who shall suffer
or permit any gaming table, bank or de-
vice prohibited by the preceding pro-
visions, to be set up or used for the pur-
pose of gaming in any house, building,
shed, booth, shelter, lot or other premis-
es, to him belonging or by him occupied
or Of which he hath at the time posses
sion or control, shall, on conviction be
j adjudged guilty of misdemeanor, and
punished by fine not less than FIVE hun
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in a
county jail not less than two months nor
more than six months, or by both such
fine and Imprisonment.
Sec. That if any person or persons
shall suffer any game or games whatso-
ever to be played for gain upon or by
means of any gaming device or machine
of any denomination or name whatever,
in his, her or their house, or in any out
house, booth, arbor, or erection, of which
he, she or they have the care or posses
sion, the person or persons so offending,
shall each, on conviction thereof be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
punished by fine of not less than fifty
nor more than two hundred dollars, and
in default of payment, shall be impris-
oned in county Jail not less than two
months nor more than five months.
Sec. 5. That if any person shall at
any time or in any place whatever, play
- at any game whatsoever for gain, with
cards dice or any other device which
may be adapted to or which may be
used in playing any game of chance, or
Ishall bet or wager on the hands or sides
of such as do play, as aforesaid, every
such person, upon conviction thereof,
shall forfeit and pay any sum not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollars,
and in default of payment shall be i'm.
lprisoned in county Jail not less than
one month nor more than three months
Sec. 6. That all promises, agreements,
notes, bills, bonds or other contracts
mortgages or other securities, when the
whole Or any part of the consideration
Of snch promise, agreement, note con-
veyance or security shall be for money
or other valuable thing whatsoever, wen
or lost, laid OF staked, or betted at OF
| upon any game or games of any kind OF
$ under any denomination or name what.
soever, or upon any horse race, cock
fight, sport or pastime, or any wager, OF
, other thing Of value lent or advanced at
the time of any game, play, bet or wager
for the purpose of being laid, betted,
staked or wagered, shall be absolutely
void and of no effect.
; Sec. I. That if any person or persons.
, by playing at any game or games, or by
means OF any bet or wager, shall lose to
any other person or persons any sum of
| money OF other thing of value, and shall
J pay or deliver the same or any part
thereof to the winner or winners. the
person or persons SO losing and paying
or delivering, may at any time within
six months next after said loss and pay
ment or delivery, sue for and recover
the money or thing of value 50 lost and
paid or delivered, or any part thereof,
with costs OF suit, by action of debt
founded on this act, to be prosecuted
before any court or before any Justice
OF the peace having competent iurisdic.
ton Of the same.
Sec. 8. That if any person or persons
losing SUCH money or thing of value. as
herein before described, shall not within
the time specified, without collision or
deceit, sue and with effect prosecute for
the money or thing of value so lost and
and paid or delivered, it shall be lawful
for any person by such action or suit to
sue Tor and recover the same with costs
Of suit, against any winner or winners
as aforesaid, for the use and benefit Of
the family or heirs ofthe person having
so lost the said money or thing ofyalue.
Sec. 9. That on the prosecution of
said action it shall be sufficient in law
for the plaintiff to allege that the defen-
dant is indebted to the plaintiff or re-
ceiyed to the plaintiffs use the money
so lost and paid or converted the
goods won of the plaintiff to the de.
fendant's use, whereby the plaintiffs ac-
ton accured to him according to the
form of, this act without setting forth
the special matter.
Sec. 10. That every person who by
this act shall or may be liable to be sued
for money or other thing of vsIno Nv