Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-06

amount of license money fixed in Section
Four of this Act, and upon giving to sal:
Sheriff definite description of the room in
which he designs to carry on said game and
filing with the County Clerk of the county
Q copy of said description.
SEC. 3. Blank licenses shall be prepared
by the County Auditor which shall be issued
and accounted for as is by law provided i'll
respect to other county licenses. Each IL
cense delivered by the Sheriff under this Act
to any person shall contain the name of the
licensoe, particular description of the room
in which the hcensee desires to carry on the
game licensed, and shall by its terms author
ize the hcensee to carry on one OF the games
mentioned in the first section of this Act,
specifying it by the name, in the room there
in described for the period of one month,
next succeeding the date of issuance of the
license.
The said license shall protect the icensee
and his employer or employers against any
criminal prosecution for dealing or carrying
on the game mentioned in the room described
during said one month, but not for dealing or
carrying on any other game than that speci-
fed, or the specified game in any other place
than the room so described, preceded, that the
licensee shall be entitled to deal or play, or
carry on two or more games in the same
room by paying license for each game 80
dealt or carried on.
SEC f. The amount to be paid to the
Sheriff shall be one hundred dollars for the
first month and seventy five dollars for each
successive month so long as the hcensee shall
deal or carry on or cause to be dealt or car
ried on said game games in the same
room.
SEC. 5. All moneys received for licenses
under the provisions of this Act shall be paid
three quarters into the County Treasury and
one quarter into the State Treasury for gen
eral county and State purposes respectively.
Sec. 6. Every person who shall knowingly
permit any of the games mentioned i'll the
first section of this Act to be played, con-
Quoted, 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
as herein provided, or his employee, and in
rooms described therein, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and on convection
thereof shall be punished as provided in Sec
ton One of this act.
SEC z. None of the above mentioned
games shall be carried on, nor shall any H.
cense issue to carry on the same in any room
of the first floor or storey of any building,
and when any building has two first floors or
stories, the other being or fronting on an
other street, then and in such case no license
shall issue to carry on any of said games i'll
any room on or in either of said first floors
or stories of such building, prOuiaed, that in
any county in which at the general cleo
ton next preceding the time of application,
were polled less than fifteen hundred votes
or in any county created after said general
election the licensee shall be entitled to carry
on his game in any back room of the first or
ground floor of any building. and if any per
son carrying on any of said games shall know
ingly permit to enter or remain in any licensed
room any person under the age of twenty one
years, he shall be dee med guilty of misde-
meanor, and shall be punished by the same
penalties for violation of it's provisions as are
prescribed in Section One of this Act.
SEC. s. No town city or municipal corpo-
ration in this State shall hereafter have pow
er to prohibit, suppress or regulate any gam
ing house or game licensed as provided by
this Act
SEC. 8. 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 to any facts CON
corning the offenses mentioned in the fore
going sections of this Act on the ground that
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 |
charged with the commission OF any of the Of |
lenses mentioned in this Act, which sum shall |
De taxed as costs In the action, but in no case |
shall such costs be charge against the county. |
SEC. IL. Amy per Oh or persons taking |
,ut license to deal any of the games men
Toned in Section One of this Act. or any pro-
,rietor of any building in which any of said
James are dealt, who shall, knowingly or
otherwise, deal or allow TO be dealt any cheat
ng or thieving game or games, known as
'hogging games" shall be deemed guilty of a
and shall he punished by the
anne penalties for violation of its provisions
s are prescribed in Section One of this Act.
Sec. II. This Act shall take effect and be
n force on and after the first day of April,
ighteen hundred and seventy nine.
SEC. Is. All Acts and parts of Acts in re-
.tion to this Act are hereby repealed.