The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-14
AVA TO RESTRICT GAMING.

| follows:
| SECTION l. Each and every person who
shall deal, play, carry on, open or cause to
be opened, nr who shall conduct either as
owner or employee, whether for hire or not
Iexcept under license as hereinafter pro-
,ided, any game of Faro. Monte, Roulette,
Lans ouen. tie Rouge et-Noir, Roudo, or any
Banking game pla, with cards, dice, or
anr other device, whether the sane be played
for money, checks, credit, or any other repre-
sentative of value. shall he gui ty of mi>de-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be
punished by fine Of not les than One
Thousand nor more than Three Thousand
Dollars, or BY imprisonment in the Comfy
Jail not less than three mcnthS nor more
than one year, or BY both such fine and i'm
prisonment.
| SEC. 2. ANY person may procure license
| for carving on anv one of the games men,
toned in Section One of this Act. in any sin
gle room, upon the payment to 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 definite description Of the room in
| which he designs to carry on said game, and
filing with the County Clerk Of the County
a copy of said description.
SFC, s. Blank licenses shall be prepared
| by the County Auditor. which shall be signed,
issued, and accounted for is by law pro-
rided i'll respect to other county licenses
Each license delivered bv the Sheriff under
this Act to any person shall contain the name
! OF the licensee, a particular descri ption of the
room in which the licensee desires to carry
on the game licensed, and shall by its terms
authorize the licensee to carry on one of the
g.mes mentioned in the First Section of this
Act. specifying it BY name, IN the room
therein described, for the period of three
months Eext succeeding the date of issuance
Of the license. The said license shall protect
the licensee, and his employer or employees,
against any criminal prosecution for dealing
or carving on the game mentioned in the
room described during said three months,
but not for dealing or carrying 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 quarterly license shall be as fol- |
lows: In any county in which at the Gen
eral Election next preceding the time of ap
plication were polled Two Thousand or more
votes, or in any county created after snch |
General Election, -Four Hundred Dollars |
in any other comfy, Two Hundred and Fifty |
Dollars.
SEC ). All moneys received for licenses
under the provisions of this Act. shall he
paid one half into the County Treasur, and
one half into the State Treasury. for general
County and State purposes respectively.
SEC. 6. Every person who shall knowingly
permit anv Of the games mentioned IN the
First Section of thi- Act TO be played. con-
Quoted dealt or carried on in any house
owned by him or her, in whole or in part, ex-
celt bv "A person who has received A license,
as herein provided. or his employee, and in
the room described therein, shall be guilty Of
"A miSdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be punished, as provided in Section One
of this Act.
SIC. I. 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
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 a misdemeanor,
and shall be punished as provided in Section
One of SAID Act.
SIC. 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.
as witness shall be disqualified or excused
rom te>tifying as such. either before a grand
Or petit jury, or any Court. to any facts con-
,erning the offenses mentioned in the fore
going Sections of this Act, on the ground
hat his testimony may criminate himself.
SEC. 10. The District Attorney of the
county shall receive Two Hundred and Fifty
Dollars for each conviction of any person
harged with the commission OF any of the
,tfenses mentioned in this Act, which sum
hall be taxed as costs 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 25th,
sos, is hereby repealed.
D. o. ADDISON,
Speaker of the Assembly.
A. WHlTFoRD,
Clerk of the Assembly.
JAMES 5. SLINGERLAND,
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. rs,
An Act to Restrict Gaming" passed the
assembly this [dayl, notwithstanding the
ELECTIONS of the Governor. by the following
ote yeas, %; nays,7.
d. o. ADDISON,
Speaker of the Assembly.
A. WHITFORD,
Clerk of the Assembly.
SENATE CHAMBER.
State Of Nevada, March f. 1859
This is to certify that Assembly Bill No. rs,
An Act to Restrict Gaming" passed the
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