Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-24
THE LAW IN THE MATTER.
Those Sections of the City Ordinances
which Relate to Gaming.

Those Sections of the City Ordinances
which Relate to Gaming.
In D to repeated inquiries we print
below the law of the city in relation to raj
ing. The following is found in the Ordi-
u on OFenses:
"SEc. IL. If any person shall be fouGd
on any street, alley or public place, or any
out lot Of ground, or on the commons, or In
any FIRE engine or hose house, stable, shed
or wagon or carriage house, or on any lot or
parcel of ground, playing at cards or any
games which are unlawful according to
this ordinance, he shall forfeit and pay to
the city q fine of not less than ten nor more
than twenty dollars and costs Of prosecu'
ton; or in default Of payment of same
shall be imprisoned for a period of not less
than FIVE nor more thirty days, or be both
fined and imprisoned at the discretion Of the
court.
SEC. As. 1t shall De unlawful for any
person whatsoever 10 keep or exhibit within
this city, any table, instrument, device or
thing, used for the purpose of gaming, or
on, by or with which money or other arti.
cles may be lost or won, or to keep within
this city any games Of chance or skill by, Or
at which any money or other article of value
may be lost or won; nor shall it be law,u'
for any person to keep a room, building
arbor, booth, stand, shed, tenement, water
craft or float. or to rent the same to be used
or occupied for the exhibition or keeping Of
any such table, instrument, device, or thing.
o; for the playing therein or thereon Of an
such game.
"SEC. 40. If the owner or owners, lessee
or lessees of any room, building, arbor,
booth, stand, shed, tenement, water craft or
float shall know that any table, instrument,
device or thing used for the purpose Of
gaming is kept or used in or about the
same, or that any game of chance or skill
BY or at which money or other articles O.
value may be lost or won, is being played
therein or thereon, and shall not forthwith
cause a complaint to be made against the
rerson or persons so keeping or using the
anne, or PLAYING or suffering the playing
of sny such game therein or thereon, such
owner or owners, lessee or ~lessees, shall be
''aken, held and considered to have know
ipglv permitted the same to be used and
occupied for gaming. and upon conviction
h,reCf, shall be fined or Imprisoned, or
'orb. as hereinafter provided.
SIC so. The Mayor or any member OF
Council, or the Sergeant or any. of his dep,
mites, may seize or direct to be seized any
table, instrument, device or thing used for
he purpose CT gaming, and the property so
seizsl may be demolished or destroyed, IN,
der the direction of the Mayor, in case the
person or persons in whose possession the
same was found shall be convicted Of gam
ing.
SEC. 81. Itany person shall play at or ne
upon any game whatsoever, on, BY, or H.
which moucy or awning of value may be
lost or won, he shall upon conviction there,
Of, be fined or imprisoned, or both, as here,
matter provided
SEC. 50. 1t shall be the duty Of the ser
gGsEt of the city, and each one Of his depu'
ties, knowing or being informed of any vic.
lation Of any of the provisions of this ordi,
nance, to make information against the
person so offending, and if the sergeant or
any deputy shall fail TO make such infor
nation, he shall forfeit and pay to the city
the sum of FIVE dollars and costs of prose
cution for every such offense.
SEC. SO. ANY person offending against
the provisions of the forty-eighth, forty
ninth and 6fty-Grst sections shall forfeit and
pay to the city a fine Of not less than FIVE.
nor more than twenty, dollars aud costs o.
prosecution, or be imprisoned not more than
thirty days,or both so fined and imprisoued a.
the discretion Of the Judge of the Municipal
Court"
Intbe ordinance in relation to ~ordinaries
and coffee houses we find the following:
SEC. 70. If any person licensed 10 keep
an ordinary, coffee house, or any place Of
public resort or amusement in this city,
shall suffer any game Of chance or skill
whatever to be played at the same or the
premises appurtensnt thereto, except such
games as are allowed by acts of Legisla-
ture at such places, he or she shall, for every
such offense, pay to the city a fine Of twenty
dollars, together with the costs Of prosecu-
ton"