The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-12-13

H. GNDOM, NAuyOIs
o. d. STILLMAN, Secretary.
MAYORS OFFICE, CITY OF MONROE,
December s, 1873.
The Council met pursuant to ad-
journment.
Present-F. Endom, Mayor; It. N.
Conner, w. p. Renwick, F. Cook, A.
Harvey. ABSENT. Hoffman, ". F.
Vogh, ]. g. Sanders.
Reading of the minutes of two last
meetings was dispensed with.
The finance committee reported
favorably on the following claims,
which were allowed by Ordinance No.
377.
| ORDINANCE NO. 377.
| Relative to claims.
Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of Monroe, That the fol-
lowing several claims be and they are
hereby allowed:
1. j. E. Peters, for coffin for pauper,
So 90.
2. j. G. Sanders, for provisions and
clothing for paupers, and material for
bridges, &C., from April II, 1873, to
November 16, 1873, 500 80.
| 8. ]. w. Locke, for jury on inquest
OF body of Dan Hill, q 90.
A. j. L. Graves, for juror on inquest
on bodies of four men hung on 18th
July, 1873, % 90.
s. John E. Hanna, for services rem
dered In examining accounts of T. s.
Richmond, $25 90.
6. John b. Garretson. for making
assessment rolls for 1873, $75 90.
2. Calderwood & Ably, for medical
services on paupers, from February 5th
to July %, 1873, $72 SO.
8. T. J. Larkin, for furnishing pro-
visions to prisoners, from November
LIST to November 80, 1873, $74 90.
8. II. Y. Ably, for expenses for Board
of Health, to December 1, 1873, 81 SO.
Approved. FIR. ENDoM, Mayor.
A petition from j Benoit, relative to
erecting house at the foot of Pine
street, was on motion received and laid
on the table.
The following ordinances were intro
duced, and ON motion received and
unanimously adopted:
ORDINANCE NO. 1873.
An ordinance to prohibit gambling,
keeping of banking games, roulette
and Keno, wheels of fortune, Tom
bola, lotteries, gift enterprises and
other gambling games, described in
the sections, and providing penalties
for the violations of sections of this
the police officers.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Mayor
and City Council of Monroe, That
whoever shall keep banking game or
banking house within the corporate
limits of the city of Monroe, at which
money or anything representing mon
ey, or any article of value, shall be
hazarded, or shall aid or assist in
keeping one, shall on conviction be
fined in a sum not less than 800 nor
more than $3.50, and in default of pay
ing fine and costs shall be sentenced to
work on the streets OF the city OF Mon
roe not less than 80 days.
! Sec. 2. Whoever shall exhibit for the
purpose of using the same, or whoever
shall put up for the purpose of using
the same, or whoever shall use the
same, within the corporate limits of
the city of Monroe, any wheel of for
tune, or any device by which betting
is solicited by marks, numbers or fig
ures, shall on conviction be fined in a
sum not less than $50 nor more than
500, and in default of paying fine and
streets of the city of Monroe for period
not more than 20 days.
/ Sec. 8. Whoever shall exhibit or
keep any gift enterprise, lottery, "Tom-
bcia" or any other game by which
persons are solicited to hazard any
money or any article of value, shall on
conviction be fined in a sum not less
than $50 nor more than 800, and in
default of paying fine and costs shall
be sentenced to work on the public
streets not more than 20 days.
Sec. 4. All persons engaged in keep
ing roulette tables or games, keno
tables or games, or engaged in any
kind of games where money is actually
used and hazarded, or where pieces of
bone, ivory, or any other material or
substance is used in lieu of money,
shall be deemed and taken to DO within
the prohibitions of Sec. 1, and all per-
sons convicted of violating said Sec.
and this section shall be liable to the
penalties provided in Sec. /.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be lawful for any
public officer of the city of Monroe,
without warrant previously obtained
for said purpose, to arrest and take
into his custody any person violating
any of the sections of this ordinance,