The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-15
AN ORDINANCE


To Define and Punish Gaming
Be i ordained by the city Council of the city
of san Antonio:
SECTION If any person shall, with
in the City of San Antonio, keep or ex-
hibit. for the purpose of gaming, any
gaming table or bank of any name or de-
scription 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 S25 nor more than 800, and
may be confined in the City Jail not
more than 30 days.
SIC. at 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.
SEC. 3.-Lest any misapprehension
should arise as to whether certain games
are included within the meaning of the
foregoing sections, 1t ia declared that
the following games are within the
meaning and intention of said sections
Faro" Monte" Vingt-et-Un,n
Rouge Noir,"" Roulette,n " A and
b c." "Chuck-a-Luck," "Keno" and
"ROndo,m but the enumeration of these
games specifically shall not exclude any
other properly within the meaning OF
the two preceding sections.
SIC. 4.-That any information or com
plant for the class Of oflenses named in
the three preceding sections, 1t is suili-
cient to state that the person accused
kept table or bank for gaming, or ex-
hibited table or bank for gaming with
out giving the name or description
thereof and without stating that the
bank, or table, or gaming device, was
without any name, or that the name was
unknown.
SEC. BIN prosecutions under this or
dlnance 1t shall be sufficient to prove
that any game therein mentioned was
played, dealt, or exhibited without prov
ing that money or any article of value
was won or lost thereon.
SIC. 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. LII any person within the
city of San Antonio shall bet or
wager NJ any gaming table or
bank, such as are mentioned in the
! proceeding sections, or shall bet OF
wager any money or other things OF
value at any of the games included in
the preceding sections, he shall on con-
viction in the Recorders court be fined
In any sum not less than SO nor more
than so.
SIC. ST 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 q
house under his control, or upon his
premises under his control, the sale
house being n public place he shall OF
conviction in the Recorders court b,
fined not less than $40 nor more than 800
SIC. 0.-lf any person shall within tn,
City of San Antonio rent TO another
room or house Tor the purpose of being
used as place for playing, dealing o
exhibiting any oftne games prohibite,
by the provisions of this ordinance, h,
shall on conviction in the Recorder
court be fined not less than S25 nor NOR
than 500.
SEC. l0.-That all ordinances or part
OF ordinances in conflict with the pro
visions hereof be, and the same are here
by repealed.