The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-01-27
AL make sell or offer 70 ssll lottery ticLets or

any policy of numbers IN any lottery, or shall I
manage any lottery or prepare schemes OF lot
teres, superintend the drawing Of any lottery,
shall be deemed . lostery-tickst dealer under
ihis act.
Also the law provides that all Lottery tickets
shall Be stamped. Bos.trs!!, page lis.
SIC. 2. AnS Be- n further enacted That OF
and after the nrssday Of Nay, eighteen hundred
and sixsy-thrse, no person or persons, associA-
ton, Arm Or corporation, shall make, sell, or Oh
fer for sale, or dispose OF any lottery ticket, or
fractional para thereof, or any policy OF numbers
in any lottery, or any token certificate, or de
vice representing or intended to represent the
holder, or any person or perssn[s as entitled
or 10 be entitled, in any lottery, lottery scheme
or game Of hazard or chance 70 be drawn, TO
any prize or share or part Of . priss, or any
sum or part or share of any sum Of money, or
other article of value, or any fractional part
thereof, without amxinE thereto Al adhesive
stamp or stamps denosing the duty imposed by
this acE and in defsult thereof shall incur q pen
atty Of ffiy dollars for each and avery such OF.
fence ; and ne prize or part of prize drawn 10
Or BY any ticket, or any fractional part thereof,
token, certificate, or device 80 Aforesaid, and no
sum OF money or thing Of value made payable or
deliverable upon any stake o, investment or
risk In, or upon any policy Of numbersy shall be
demanded or recovered. by any legal proceedings
or otherwise without the ticket or fractional
part thereof, or policy of numbers, token, Ger
tfcste, or device, shsl have been duly stamped
At the time Of making sale or delivery or dispo-
sal thsreof: Provides, That, in addition to al
other penalties and forfeitures now imposed by
Law for the evasion of stamp duties, any person
who shall purchase, obtain or receive any lottery
ticket, or aay fractional part tnreeof, or any to-
ken, certificate, or device representing or IN
tended TO represent lottery ticket or fractional
part thereof, or any policy Of numbers, without
frat having thereon shs stamp imposed by this
act, may recover from the person Of whom the
same was purchased, obtained or received, At
any time within three years thereafter, before
any court OF competent Jurisdiction, a sum equal
10 twice ihs amount paid for such ticket or frac
tional part thereof token, certificate, or device,
or staksd or invested in or upon aay policy Of
numbers a. Aforesaid. with just and legal costs
Prev,ds6 further, That the stamp duty herein
provided for shall be classed in the act to which
this act 10 an amendment under the schedule B,
as follows, 70 wit:
Lottery tickets, fractional parts of lottery
tickets, policies Of Numbers in lotteries, tokens,
certificates, or devices in any form, representing
she holder, or any person or persons, as entitled
or to be entitled, in any lottery, scheme or game
OF hazard or chance, hereafter to be drawn, TO
any prize or portion of prize or sum of money,
or share thereof, when sHch ticket fractional
part OF ticket, policy Of numbers, token GER
,ihcats, or device, shall not exceed one dollar in
she amount risksd, or in the retail price thereof.
nfsy cents, $50 when such ticket, fractional
part Of ticket, policy, token, certificate,
or device, shall exceed one dollar in the amount
risked, or in the retail price shereof, then for
each and every dollar or fractional part thereof,
over and above one dollar, as before mentioned
an additional FIFTY cents"
II the sellers of tickets in these Gift Concerto
will examine the phraseology of the preceding
section carefully, they will find themselves clear
y holden for the penalties prescribed for, I'm cell
ing these tickets, they sell ga token, cerfifcat,
or dsvics, reprsse.ti,lg the holder as entitled
in a game OF hazard or chance to be drdcis-tc
an article ofvaIas, or any fractional part there.
Of" Surely this language describes Gift Con.
cert with sufficient clearness.
Decisien Of the Commissioner Of Interna
Revenue, No. so, BOuts0eIl, page SIG:
Every person or firm that shall make, sell Oh
offer TO sell lottery tickets, &c, should be re
eured to take license under article 81 of section
st..==s-aalas' sdJtra ousfIegs nlayroe '6rehipnst
1 BY the laws of the State in which il i. carrie,
on.
Decision OF the same Commissioner, No. so
BoutissH, page sl4, expressly declares Gift Con.
cerm 10 be on the same footing with Lotteries
The words are these:
gilt concert is held to be lottery. ant
the manager, superintendents, and sellers of The
teksss are required 10 take out license Of Oh,
Thousand dollars, as lottery ticket dealers, anc
TO cause the proper revenue stamps to be at.
sached to each ticket shey issue. according tf
section 2 Of the Rmendatory act of March !.
1858.
These decisions Of the Commissioner have
practically the force of law, unless set aside bv
.he Courts.
We hope this whole subject OF Lotteries viii
be carefully considered by the entire community,
a. well as by those engaged in the Gift COncer,
enterprise, and the system will be voluntarily
abandoned, without the Intervention of either
'-' Lieut.. Col. Fox and the war.
At tho meeting of the Republican members Of
the Legislature at the State House, last evening,
the question was raised whether the sOderss in
the army had any considerable desire to vote in
their camps; and Col. Fox, of the 9th Michigan
Infantry, who Was present, was called out to an
sser the inquiry.
The Col. stated, in substance, that such de
sire did exist to powerful extent in the sol.
dIers Of all the States; that our own soldiers
feel strongly because they see the soldiers Of
other States exercising the privilege; that be
had frequently been asked whether he thought
the Legislature vsuld enact law for that pur-
pose aud that next to the interest every soldier
had in meeting the enemy of his country in the
field, was that which he felt lest hiG Csuntry
should be injured by traitors at home. This
feeling existed without respect to State lines,
and when the news reached the camp that Va.
Iandlgham had been defeated in Ohio by 90, 900
majority, the Michigan troops cheered the glo.
rious news with thousands Of voices, and not
content with that, they went to that noble man,
Burnside, and obtained leave to use the cannsn
to send their joy revsrberating amsng the hills Of
Tennessee.
The Col further stated that it was not possi-
BE, il ihs literal sense Of the word, for the war
70 las, mere than tive years longer, and be firmly
believed that the whole contest would be ended
BY the Alb of July next. He thought it was
well for the Legislature to enable the soldiers TO
vote; but be had ne idea that they would ever
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