The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-21
AN ORDINANCE


Be it ordained by the City Council of
the City of San Antonio:
SECTION |. If any person shall within
the City of San Antonio keep or exhibit
for the purpose of gaming any gaming
table or bank of any name or description
whatever, 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 at any
place, he shall be fined not less than
twenty-five nor more than one hundred
dollars, and imprisonment in the City
Jail not less than ten nor more than
ninety days.
SEC. 2. 1t being Intended by the fore
going section to include every species of
gaming device known by the name of
table or bank of every kind whatever,
this provision shall be construed to in
clude any and all games which in COM
mon language are said to be played,
dealt, kept or exhibited.
SIC. 3. Lest any misapprehension
should arise as to whether certain games
are included within the meaning of the
foregoing sections, 1t is declared that
the following games are within the
meaning and intention of said sections:
"Rough-et-noir," Roulette" "a and
Is G." "Chuck-a-luok," ''Keno," and
"Rondo;" but the enumeration of these
games specifically shall not exclude any
other properly within the meaning of
the two preceding sections.
SEC. 4. That on any information or
complaint for the class of oflenses
named in the three preceding sections
II is sufficient to state that the person
accused kept table or bank for gaming
or exhibited table or bank for gaming
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thereof, and without stating that the
bank or table or gaming devise was
without any name, or that the name was
unknown.
SEC. D. In prosecutions under this or
dinance 1t shall be sufficient to prove
that any game therein mentioned wds
played, dealt or exhibited, without
proving that money or any article of
value was won or lost thereon.
SEC. G. The words "played" and
"dealt" 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 betters.
SEC. 7. If any person within the City
of San Antonio shall bet or wager at
any gaming table or bank such as are
mentioned in the preceding sections, or
hh"i btN VI "aboi any lhOitl VI OllltI
thing of value ut any of the games in
cluded in the preceding sections, he shall
on conviction in the Recorders Court,
be fined In any sum not less than ten
nor more than twenty-five dollars.
SEC. s. If any person shall within the
City of San Antonio permit any game
prohibited under the provisions Of this
ordinance to be played in his house or a
house under his control, or upon his
premises or upon premises under his
control, the said house being public
place, he shall, on conviction in the Re
corder's Court, be fined not less than
ten nor more than one hundred dollars
SEC. o. If any person shall within the
City of San Antonio rent to another u
room or house for the purpose of being
used as II place for playing, dealing OF
exhibiting any of the games prohibited
by the provisions of this ordinance, he
shall, on conviction in the Recorders
Court, be fined not less than TWENTY-FIVE
nor more than one hundred dollars.
SEC. 10. That all ordinances or part,
OF ordinances in conflict with the pro
visions hereof be and the same are here
by repealed.
Passed and approved July "a, 1885.
BRYAN CALLAGHAN.
By Il. Z. CLAUDoN, Mayor.
City Clerk. S-i4-IO