St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-03
The Lottery Bill.

Washington, Aug 16-The following is the
text of the anti-lottery bill passed by the Sen
ate yesterday:
"No letter, postal card, or circular concerning
any lottery, called gift concern or other sinf-
lar enterprise offering prizes depenent upon lot
otcnhnce tor rconcernlng schemes divisedfor tho
purpose or obtaining money or property under
1alse pretcnsea), and no list OF the drawings Of
an, lottery or similar scheme, and no lottery
tuhr. or part thereof, and no check, draft, bill,
purchase or any ticket, tickets or parts thereof
OF any share OF chance in any such lottery or
Sa,r St,i unartprlse. shall be carried i'll the mail or
aeHVerei at or through any post office or
Dranch thereof, or by any letter carrier: nor
snali any newspaper, circular, uha,nphtt or
pupllcatlons OF any kind containing any a,iver-
tlsement of any 10, terry giit ENTERPRISE of any
KIND Offering prizes dependent uIon lot or
chance, or conrai ing any list Of prizes award
ca at the drawings OF any such lottery or gift
enterprise, whether sad list is of anv uart or
of all of the drawing. be carried in the mail or
delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier.
ANY person who Shall knowingly deposit or
cause to be depnstt or who shall knowingly
Send or cause to be sent anything to be convey
ed or delivered by mail anything herein TOR
blden 10 he carried hy mail, shall he guilty OF a
1nlsdtmeanOr. and on conviction shall he MN
lsiltd by a fnr OF not more than $500, or bv i'm.
PflIohInenl for more than one year or bv
noun Shch t1he and i!nprl5. 'lfieht tor each Of
ienSr ANY person violating any OF The proyis-
Ions "f This sertI"l may hr prncctCed against
ny Information ntGic,tIltiif and friai and
Puh'sHtd ri'r'r III th' 'tiSIlrt at y hlcL the I'm.
"a
~ c"tlltl ~ ln.tIl or "rlivrIt accnrtlinl, 10 the
,hl c,'h iH'-fc"it, "r Al which il is CAUSED to
'r HrilFered ny mail 10 the person 10 whom It
Is adortssea
Inc p'~i'astt! & raj Iua. , llt;;l evidence
satisfactory /" h!In nat ANY l,.r~rn or company
Is 1h&H2"'t III .''i' It llf. ~ti. rs slfi en-
:'rpfi'' or srhrlnr i'T inr Gl-rlF,''n of mon
eN "f ~ any real I ier>,.i,aI ,.r p,.rty by LOT
chance or drnT 5N& OF elI, ID. OF ii,af NV
rEis II "i company is r"Ituct IL ;ll other
H'ht'iiit' or Il; 'It Ia" Ot''Giing lunlny = rr,,p
trty "f any KID through h+ ll:tII- bI means or
false II irdu'i"l"Gt pr, t,-hEes L. j. .Strfut,urs
o. prom mst>. it>trnc l'''>Iln.4sIrr> at any l.et-
1hre at Wills !. II =I>ltr'd ctl,r> .lriv. directed
to any pris"n OF r"ln!rtL!, or TO lie agent .,r
rrpres' ntat We oE any sucI lI.l-on ,r com
pan] whe her such agent " representative ia
acting dis an IndlVl naI as Il 1rlu bark cnr-
pur.ttl"n "r Hs>uciatlrii nf any kind to- reluru
all suri L risIetrr-d letters 10 tie pos mnsf.r ut
the office III wDirh they we're urlg g,nall, mailed
with the word Fraudulent" pi;itnly wril1cu or
stamped ulrn the "lttei,i- thereof and an such
ic1ie-s :" rrlnrsed t. >uct. l,"stluasttrs shall
he hy tho III returned to he WRITER thereof. nn-
der -urii reg ulal.I,s the postmaster general
ma prts'riht. tut luthlng contained in 1hIs
section shall be col,stlll d as to authorize. any
posi- slnlas1.r or "iler lt son to open any letter
not addressed to himself
The public advertisement by such person or