The union Democrat., 1870-01-01
An Act to Restrict Gaming.

Senator Green, of Marin, has introduced
in the State Senate the following Bill to Ii
cense gambling in this State.
The People ofthe STATE of California, repre-
seated in Senate and assembly, do enact as
tollo,cs:
SEcrIoN l. Each and every person who
shall deal, play, carry on, open, or cause
to be opened, or who shall conduct, either as
owner or employe, whether for hire or not,
except under a license. as hereinafter pro-
vided, any game of faro, monte, roulette,
lansquenette, rouge-et-noir, ro2do, or any
banking game played with cards, dice. or
any other device, whether the same be play
ed for money, checks, credit, or any other
representative of value, shall be guilty of q
misdemeanor. and on conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than one
thousand nor more than three thousand dol
lars, or by imprisonment in the county Jail
not less than three months nor more than one
year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SEc. ,. Any person may procure license
for carrying on any one of the games men,
toned in section one of this Act, in any sin
gle room, upon payment to the Sheriff of the
county in which the same is situated, the
amount of license money fixed III section four
CT this Act, and upon giving to said Sheriff a
definite description of the room in which he
designs to carry on said game, and filing with
the County Clerk Of the county copy of said
description.
SEC. B. Blank licenses shall be prepared
by the County Auditor, which shall be sign
ed, issued and accounted for as is by law pro-
vided in respect to other county licenses.
Each license delivered by the Sheriff under
this Act to any person shall contain the name
of the license, a particular description of the
room in which the licensee desires to carry
on the game licensed, end shall by its terms
authorize the licensee to carry on one of the
games mentioned in the first section of this
Act. specifying it by rame, in the room there
in described, for the period of three months
next succeeding the date Of issuance ofthe IL
cense. The said license shall protect the
licensee and his employer or employers against
any criminal prosecution for dealing or car
rying on the game mentioned in the room de-
scribed, during said three months, but not
for dealing or carrying on any other game
than that specified on the specified game, in
any other place than the room so described :;
procided. that the lcensee shall be entitled
to deal or play or carry on two or more games
in the same room, by paying a license for
each game 50 dealt or carried on.
Sec. t. The amount to be paid to the Sher-
if for quarterly license shall be as follows
In any county in which at the general cleo
ton next preceding the time of application.
were polled two thousand or more votes. or
in any county created after such general cleo
ton, four hundred and fifty dollars; in any
other county, two hundred and fifty dollars
Sec. 5 All moneys received for license
under the provisions of this Act shall be paid,
one-half into the county treasury and one
half into the State treasury, for general coun-
ty and State purposes, respectively.
SEC. 6. Every person who shall knowingly
permit any cfthe games mentioned in the first
section of this Act to be played, conducted
dealt or carried on in any house owned by
him or her. in whole or in part, except by a
person who has received license rs herein
provided or his emplcye, and in the room
described therein, shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished as provided
in section one of this Act.
Sec. !. None of the above mentioned
games shall be carried on, nor shall any Ii
cense issue to carry the same on, in any front
room of the first or ground floor of any build
ing 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 eighteen years, he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be
punished as provided in section one of said
Act.
Sec. s. No town, city or municipal cor
poraton in this State shall hereafter have
power to prohibit, suppress or regulate any
gaming house Or game licensed as provided
by this Act.
. Sec 9. No person otherwise competent as
a witness shall be disqualified or excused
from testifying as such, either before grand
or petit jury, or any Court, of any facts con-
cerning the offences mentioned in the torego-
ing sections of this Act. on the grounds that
his testimony may oriminate 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
offences mentioned in this Act, which sum
shall be taxed as cost in the action but in
no case shall such cost be o charge against
the county.
SEC. II. All Acts and parts of Acts in
consistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed. This Act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage.
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Importance held 10y 1t IN this country prior to
the war. In 1860, the last peaceful year of
the old regime, exports of the raw material
were valued at Sl9l .S06, ,000 In 1861 the
figures fell to S4, ,05l 900, and in 1862 to the
insignificant sum OF 81. $50. 900. The next
year saw an advance to Sc, ,652. 900, and 1864
to 50 1875, 900, while in 1865 decline to S.,
900 was experienced. With the return
of peace and the revival of Southern industry
in 1866, the value Of cotton exports was S2S1, :
3S5. 900, the magnitude of the sum being due
to the high price of the material. With the
decline in value consequent on increased pro-
duction of the staple, the sum of exports in
1867 was reduced to S20l, 40, 900, and in
1868 to Sl52, $40, 900.
The music in the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er's church costs s. 900 year. The organ
ist gets 81 200 the conductor So 900, the tenor
81, 900, the soprano 5000, contralto $500 and