Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-20
THE NEW GAMBLING LAW.

Full Text OF the Bill. ms IL Passed
al the Late Session Of the LesisIa-
ture.
To moet numerous inquiries we give be-
low q certified copy Of the new law licens-
ing gaming
Section /. Each and every person who
shall deal, play, carry on, open or cause to
be opened, or who shall conduct, either az
owner or employe, whether for hire or not,
except under a license, as hereinafter pro-
vided, any game Of faro, monte, roulette,
jaurque-suette, rouge ct noir, rondo, keno,
fan tan, twenty-one, red, white and blue,
red and black, or diana, or any banking
game played with cards, dice, or any other
device, whether the same be played for
money, checks, credit, or any other valu-
able thing, or representative Of value, shall
be guilty OF a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof, shall be punished by q fine
of not less than 81 900 nor more than
So, ZOO, or Ly imprisonment in the ou nty
Jail not less than three months, nor more
than one year, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Sec. 2. Any person may procure a IL
cense for carrying on any one OF the games
mentioned in section l of this Act, in
any stHRlc IOOii, upon tht P"s iVh w tut
Sheriff Of the county in which the same is
situated, the amount Of license money
liked in section 4 of 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 a copy of said de-
scription.
Sec. 8. Blank licenses shall be prepared
by the County Auditor, which shall be
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 licensee, a particular descrip-
ton of the room in which the ~licensee de-
sires to carry ON the game licensed, and
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
name, in the room therein described, for
the period of one month next succeeding
the date Of issuance of the license. The
said license shall protect the ~licensee and
his employe or employers against IN
criminal prosecution for dealing or carry
ing on the game mentioned, in the room
described. during said one month, but not
for dealing or carrying on any other game
than that specified, or the specified game
in any other place than the room so de-
scribed; provided, that the ~licensee shall
be entitled to deal or play, or carry on W
or more games in the same room, by pay
ing a license for each game so dealt or car
ried on.
Sec. 4. The amount to be paid to the
Sheriff shall be 500 for the first month,
as the ~licensee shall deal, or carry on, or
ca.ca To la dealt nr % rrip1 on aui6 pama
or games in the said room.
SEQ. S. All money received for licenses,
under the provisions Of this Act, shall be
paid three-auarters into the County Treas
ury and one-quarter into the State Treas
ury for general county and State purposes,
respectively.
Sec. 6. Every person who shall know
inglv permit any Of the games, mentioned
in the first SETON of this Act, to be played,
conducted, dealt or carried on in any house
owned by him or her, in whole or in part,
by a person who has received a Ii
cense as herein provided, or his employe,
and in the room described therein, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof, shall be punished as
provided in section one of this Act.
Sec. 7. None of the aforementioned
games shall be carried on, nor shall any
license issue to carry on the same in any
room of the first floor or story of any
building, and when any building has two
first floors or stories, the other being or
fronting on another street, then and in
such cases no license shall issue to
carry on any Of the said games in any
room or in either of the first floors or
stories Of such building; provided, 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 ioor 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 twenty-one years, he shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by the same penalties for
violation of its provisions as are prescribed
in section one of this Act.
Sec. 8. Nc 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.
Sec. 9. No person, otherwise competent
as a witness, shall be disqualified or excns-
ed from testifying as such, either before a
Grand or Petit Jury, or any Court, to any
facts concerning the offences mentioned
in the foregoing sections of this Act, on
the ground that his testimony may crimi-
nate himself.
Sec. 10. The District Attorney OF the
county shall receive $3.50 for such convic-
ton of any person charged with the com
mission of any of the offences mentioned
in this Act, which sum shall be taxed as
costs in the action, but in no case shall
such costs be a charge against the county.
Sec. IL. Any person or persons taking
out license to deal any of the games men
toned in section of this Act, or any pro-
prietor of any building in which any OF
said games are dealt, who shall knowingly
or otherwise deal, or allow to be dealt, any
cheating or thieving game or games known
as ''hoggihg," shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be punished by the
same penalties for violation of its provis-
ions as are prescribed in section OF this
Act.
Sec. 10. This Act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the 1st day OF
April, 1879.
See. 10. All Acts, and parts of Acts. in
relation to this Act are hereby repealed.
Approved March s., 1879.
RY EOOTPADS.