The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-11
AN ACT TO RESTRICT GAMING.

scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact a
follows:
SECTION l. Each and every person whit
shall deal, play, carry on, open or cause Il
be opened, OF who shall conduct either a.
owner or employee, whether for hire or not
except under license as hereinafter pro.
,ided, any game of Faro. Monte, Roulette
Lansquentt,e. Rnuge-et-Noir, ROndo, or any
Banking game play with cards, dice, OF
any other device, whei her the sane be PLAYED
for money, checks, credit, any other repre-
sentative of value. sh; II he sui ty Of a mi>de-
meanor, and conviction thereof shall be
punished by fine at mo- les than One
Thousand nor more than Three Thousand
Dollars, or bv imprisonment in the County
Jail not less than three months nor more
than one year, or BY both such fine and in-
prisonment.
| SEC. 2. Any person may procure license
| for carryin any one of the games men
toned in Section One of Il is Act. in any sim
| gle room, upon the payment t" the Sheriff of
the County in which the same is situated the
| amount of license money fixed in Section
Four of this Act, and upon giving to said
Sheriff d, fiuite description Of the ronm in
which he designs to carry on said game, and
| fling with the County Clerk of the County
a copy Of said description.
| SIC, 3. Blank licenses shall be prepared
| BY the County Auditor. which shall he signed,
issued, and accounted for as is by law pro
| vided i'll respect to other county licenses.
| Each license delivered tv the Sheriff under
this Act to an, person shall contain the name
Of the licenSee, particular description Of the
room in which the licensee desires to carry
| on the game licensed, and shall by its terms
authorize the licen>ee Il carry on one of the
g-mes mentioned in the First Section Of this
Act. specifying it BY name, III the room
therein described, for the period Of three
months next succeeding the date of issuance
OF the license. The said license shall! protect
the lcensee, and his employer or emplo, ee>,
against any criminal prO>o cation for dealing
or carrying on the game mentioned in the
room described during said three months,
but not for dealing OF carrying on any other
game than that spec iicd, or the specific d
game. in any other place than the room so
described A.; Pyorided, That the licen>ee shall
be entitled TO deal, OF play, or carry on two
or more games in the same room by pay
ing license for each game 50 dealt o. car
risd on.
SIC. 4. The amount to be paid TO the
Sheriff for quarterly license snail be as fol-
lows: In any county in which at the Grn-
eral Election next preceding the time Of ap
plication were polei Two Thousand or more
votes or in any county created after such
General Election, Four Hundred no!l~r>
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 into The State Treasury, for general
County and State purposes respectively. |
Sic. 6. Every person who shall knowingly !
permit anv Of the games mentioned in the
First Section of thi> Act to be played. CON
ducted. dealt or carried III any house
owned by him or her, in VIII fe or i'll part, tx
cept 5y person 81 no has received license,
as herein provided. or his empl. wee, and in
the room desert ed therein, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be punished, provided in Section One
of this Act.
SIC. I. Nome of the above mentioned
games shall be carried en-, 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 years, he
shall be deemed guilty of mi>demeanor,
and shall be punished as provided III Section
One Of said Act.
SIC. s. No town, city, or municipal cor
poratiOn in this State, shall hereafter have
power to prohibit, suppress regulate any
by this Act.
SEC. 8. No person otherwise competent
as witness shall be disqualified or excused
from te>tifying as such. either before grand
Dr petit jury, or any Court, TO any facts con-
cerniug the offenses mentioned in the f. re-
going Sections of this Act, On the ground
hat his testimony may orininate himself.
SEC. 10. The District Attorney of the
county shall receive Two Hundred and Fifty !
Dollars for each conviction of any person
charged with TIE commission OF any of the
,tfenses mentioned in this Act, which sum
hall be taxed as Gusts in the action, but in
10 case shall such costs be charge against
he county.
SEC. II. An Act entitled "An Act to
Prevent Gaming" approved February 18th, I
$50, 10 hereby repealed.
D. o. ADDISON,
Speaker of the Assembly.
A. WHITToRD,
Clerk OF the Assembly.
JAMES S. SLINGERLAND,
President of the Senate.
JoHS WATSON,
Secretary OF the Senate.
Assembly CHAMBER,
State Of Nevada, March, 4, 1869.
This is to certify that Assembly Bill Nos,
An Act to Restrict Gaming" passed the ,
s~embly this dayl, notwithstanding the
ELECTIONS of the Governor. by the following
',e:-yeas, %; nays,7.
d. o. ADDISON,
Speaker OF the Assembly.