The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-13
avacr To RESTRICT GAMING.


owner or employee, whether for hire or not
except under a license as hereinafter pro-
vided, any game of Faro. Nome, Roulette
Lansquenette. R"uge-et-Noir, Rondo. or any
Banking game pla, ed with cards, dice, or
anv other device, whether the same be PLAYED
| for money. checks, credit, or any other repre-
sentative OF value. shall be gui " of a mi>de-
mcanor, and on conviction thereof shall be
punI>hrd by a fine If no, les than One
| Thousand nor mere than Three Thousand
Dollars, or BY imprisonment i: the County
Jail not less than three months nor more
than one wear, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonmeIt.
! SEC. .. Any person may procure license
| for carry ing on anv one of the games men,
| toned in Section One of Il is Act. in any sim
| gle roem, upon the payment t" the Sheriff of
| the Countv in which the same is situated the
amount of license money fixed in Section
| Four of this Act, and upon giving t" said
Sheriff d, finite description Of the room in
which he designs TO carry on said game, and
| fling with the Comfy Clerk of the County
a copy of said desert tiun.
SIC. g. Blank licenses shall be prepared
by the County Auditor, which shall be signed,
issued, and accounted for as is by law pro-
vided in respect to other county licenses
Each license delivered ~ the Sheriff under
this Act to any person shall contain the name
Of the licensee, particular description Of the
room in which the licensee de>ir. to carry
on the game licensed, and shall by its terms
authorize the licen>ee te carry on one of the
games mentioned in the First Section of this
Act specifying it b, Lame, III the room
therein described. for the period of three
months next succeeding the date Of issuance
of the license. The said license shalt protect
the licensee, ard bis emplo, OF en'pnvees,
against any criminal prosecution for dealing
or carrying on the game mentioned IN the
room described during said three months,
but not for dealing or carving on any other
game than that specified, or the specified
game in anv other place than the room so
described Prorided, That the licen,ee hall
be entitled to deal, or play, or carry on two
or more games in the same room BY pay
ing license for each game so dealt or car
ried on.
SEC 4. The amount to be paid to the
Sheriff for a quarterly license shall be as fol-
lows: In any county in which at the Cen
eral Election n vt preceding the time OF ap
plication we're pole Two Thousand or more
votes, or in any county created after such
General Election, Four Hundred no'l~rs;
in an, other comfy, Two Hundred and Fifty
Dollars.
SEC ). All moneys received for licenses
under the provisions Of this Act. shall be
paid one half into the County Treasury and
one half INFO the State Treasury. fer general
County and State purposes respectively.
SIC. 6. Every person VII" shall know inely
Kermit any Of the games mentioned in the
First Section Of ,hi~ Act to be played. con-
Quoted, dealt or carried on in any house
owned bv him OF her, in VIII ir or in part, eX
cept bv a person " no has received a license,
as herein provided or his employee, and in
the room DESERT ed therein, shall be guilty Of
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be punished provided in Section One
Of this Act.
SEC. 7. None of the above mentioned
games shall be carried on, nor shall any
license issue to carry the same on, in any
front room of the first or ground floor of any
building; and if any person CARRYING on any
of said games shall knowingly permit to
enter or remain in any licensed room any
person under the age of seventeen wears. he |
shall be deemed guilty of a mi>demeanor,
and shall be punished as provided IN Section
One of SAID Act.
SFC. s. No town, city, or municipal cor
poration in this State, shall hereafter have |
power TO prohibit, suppress or regulate any
gaming house. or game licensed as provided
by this Act.
SIC. 9. No person otherwise competent
as witness shall be disqualified or excused |
from te>tifying as such, either before grand
or petit jury, or any Court, to any facts con-
corning the offenses mentioned in the f re-
going Sections of this Act, on the ground
that his testimony may eliminate himself.
SEC. 10. The District Attorney of the
county shall receive two Hundred and Fifty |
Dollars for each conviction of any person
charged with the commission OF any of the
otfenses mentioned in this Act, which sum
shall be taxed as costs in the action, but in
no case shall such costs be charge against
the county.
SEC. Ii. An Act entitled "An Act to
Prevent Gaming" approved February 18th,
1865, is hereby repealed.
D. o. ADDISON,
Speaker of the Assembly.
A. WHITFORD,
Clerk of the Assembly.
JAMES S. SLISGERLAND,
President of the Senate.
JOHN WATSON,
Secretary of the Senate.
ASSEMBLY CHAMBER,
State of Nevada, March, 4. 1869.
This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. IS,
'' An Act to Restrict Gaming" passed the
Assembly this [dayl, notwithstanding the
objections of the Governor. by the following
vote yeas, %; na,s,7.
Speaker Of the Assembly
A. WHITFoRD,
Clerk of the Assembly.
SENATE CHAMBER.
State of Nevada, March f. 1869
This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. 70,
u An Act to Restrict Gaming" passed the
Senate this day. notwithstanding the ohjec-
ions Of the Go,srnor-veas. ID; nays. 4.
7 ID. EDWARDS,
President pro tenn. of the Senate.
ruaS. f. BICKNEIL