The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-06-16
AN ORDINANCE
To Define and Punish Gaming


he it 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
gaming 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 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
60 days.
SECTIoN2 2. Lest any misrepresentation should
arise as to whether certain games are included
within the meaning of the foregoing sections,
IL is declared that the following games are
within the meaning and construction of said
sections, viz: Faro" monte" 'vingt ct
un," rouge ct noir," roulette" "A. b. Co."
chuck -a-luck," Keno" and "rOndo;" but the
enumeration of these games shall not exclude
any other properly within the meaning of the
preceding section.
SECTION 3. In all afRdavits made for
the class of otieuses named in the two
preceding section, 1t is sufficient to state that
the person accused kept table or bank for
gaming, or exhibited a table or bank for gam
ing. without giving the name or description
thereof, or without stating that the table or
name, or that the name was unknown.
SEC 4. 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.
bECTION %. Inc WOTus Dldleu ana III,
have the meaning attached to them in common
language. The word exhibited" is intended
to signify the act of displaying the bank or
game. for the purpose of obtaining bettOrs.
! SECTION o. IL 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 Z. If any person shall permit any
game prohibited by the provisions of this Or
dinance to be played in his house, or a house
under his control, he shall be fined not less than
Y2D more than 500.
SECTION 8. If any person shall rent to
another II 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 20 nor more than 500.
SECTION o. lt 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, forclbly enter any and
all houses or premises used or resorted to for
gaming and arrest and take before the Recor-
der any person or persons they may find so
engaged. The Recorder is hereby empowered,
4 and IL 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 as to violations of any of the provi-
sions of this ordinance; and, upon the evidence
of such witnesses, to issue warrants for the ar
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 aud
for any offense enumerated in this ordinance a
conviction may be had upon the unsupported
evidence of an accomplish or participant.
SECTION 10. All ordinances or parts OF ordi-
nances, especially Chapter 20 of the Revised
City Ordinances, Title Gambling" be, and the
same are, hereby repealed.
Passed May 10, 1888
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.
fore becomes q law without his signature.
elliot b, L, CLAupoN, City Clerk.