The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-06-15
AN ORDINANCE
To Define and Punish GAMING


BE 1t ordained by the City Council of the City
of San Antonio:
SECTION !. If any person within the corpor-
ate limits of the City of San Antonio shall keep
or exhibit, for the purpose of gaming, any
gamDg-table or bank of any description what
ever, or any table or bank used for gaming
which has no name, or shall be In any manner
interested in Keeping or exhibiting any such
table, or bank, he shall be fined not less S25
nor more than 500, and In addition thereto
may be confined in the city Jail not more than
90 days.
SECTIoN2. Lestany misrepresentation should
arise as to whether certain games are in cluded
within tire meaning of the foregoing sections,
IL is declared that the following games are
sections, viz: Faro" monte" "vingt ct
un," rouge ct noir," roulette" "a. d. c."
enumeration of these games shall not exclude
any other properly within the meaning of the
preceding section.
SECTION 3. In all afiidavits made for
the class of offenses named In the two
preceding section, 1t Is sufficient to state that
the person accused kept table or bank for
gaming, or exhibited table or bank for gam
| ing without giving the name or description
| thereof, or without stating that the table or
bank, or gaming device, was without any
name, or that the name was unknown.
SECTION T. In prosecutions under sections
and 2 it shall be sufficient to prove that any
game therein mentioned was played, dealt or
exhibited, without proving that money or
other articles OF value were won or lost there
| on.
| SECTION D. Inc words played ana "dealt,"
have the meaning attached to them in common
| language. The word exhibited" Is intended
to signify the aot OF displaying the bank or
game. for the purpose of obtaining bettors.
| SECTION o. If any person shall bet at any
gaming table, or bank as are mentioned in the
| preceding sections, he shall be fined not less
than $40 nor more than $50.
| SECTION 7. If any person shall permit any
game prohibited by the provisions of this Or
dinance to be played ip his house, or a house
under his control, no shall be fined not less than
|
| SECTION 8. If any person shall rent to
another a room or house for the purpose of
| being used as place for playing, dealing or eX-
hibiting any Of the games prohibited by the
provisions of this ordinance, he shall be fined
not less than $S5 nor more than $780,
| SECTION y. IL shall be the duty of the Marshal,
| Assistant Marshal and police of the city to
strictly enforce this ordinance and to arrest
any and all persons offending against the same
| and TO take them before the Recorder for trial;
| they may, II necessary, tOrcibly enter any and
| all houses or premises used or resorted to for
gaming and arrest and take before the Recar-
| der any person or persons they may lind so
| engaged. The Recorder is hereby empowered,
| and IT is made his duty, upon statement being
made to him, that any OF the provisions of this
ordinance are being violated, to subpoena per-
sons and compel their attendance as witnesses
TO TESTIFY us TO violations OF any OF the prQvt-
sio I OF this ordinance and, upon the evidence
rest of parties shown to have violated the pro-
visions hereof.
Any person so summoned and examined shall
not be liable to prosecution for any violation
Of said articles about which he may testify and
for any otfense enumerated In this ordinance a
conviction may be had upon the Unsupported
evidence OF an aocomplice or participant.
SECTION 10. All ordinances or parts OF ordi-
nances, especially CHATTER % OF the Revised
/ City Ordinances, Title Gambling" be, and the
same are, hereby repealed.
Passed May 10, 1883
The foregoing ordinance was not approved
by the Mayor nor was the same returned with
his objections to the City Council at the meet
Ing following the passage thereof, and there's
fore becomes law without his signature.
tll-iOt u, +, CLAUDoN, City Clerk.