Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-01
AGAINST GAMBLING.
The Committee ON Ordinances Rec. |
ommend the Adoption OF a Strin-
gent Ordinance Against Pool Sell.
ing. Etc.

The Committee on Ordinances Rec. |
Ommend the Adoption OF a Strfn-
gent Ordinance Against Pool Sell
ing, Etc.
All the members of the ordinance COM
mittee except Councilman We'll, who was
obliged to be absent from the city, met
last evening in the city hall, and voted to
recommend the adoption of the following
ordinance on the subject of pool selling:
Be it ordained by the court of common
council of the city of New Haven:
Every person. whether as principal,
agent or servant, who shall within the city
of New Haven own, possess, keep, manage,
maintain or occupy, or who shall assist in
keeping, managing, maintaining or eccu-
pying any building, room, Office or place,
or any part of any building, room, Office
or place, with apparatus, books, boards or
any device for the purpose of max
ing, recording or registering bets
or wagers, or of buying or selling
pools upon the result of any trial or con-
test of skill, speed or endurance of man,
beast, bird or machine, or upon the result
of any game, competition, political nemi-
| nation, appointment or election, whether
such trial, contest, game, competition,
nomination, appointment or election take
place either within or without the city of
New Haven; and every person who within
such wagers or bets or buy or sell or be
concerned in buying or selling any
such pools; and every person, who,
| being the owner, lessee or occupant
of any building or room or part
thereof in said city, knowingly permits
the same to be used or occupied for any
such purposes, shall forfeit and pay q
penalty of not less than twenty-five no,
more than one hundred dollars for every
such offense, and each day of such own
ing, keeping, occupying or permitting
| shall constitute a separate oHense; and
whoever becomes the custodian or deposi
tory of any pools, money, property OF
thing of value, in any manner staked Of
bet upon any such result or of any appara
tus of any kind used for thepurpose Of as
sisting in buying or selling any such pool
or making any such wagers or bets, shall
be punished in like manner
This ordinance is q substitute for the 80
called Meriden gambling ordinance recent
1y introduced into the board of aldermen
which was referred to the ordinance com
mittee.
It seems that some years ago gener
al statute was enacted by the state legisla
ture authorizing the court of common
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hibiting pool selling, policy playing, lot
terry dealing, etc., and it was evidently tn
intention of the legislature that such o1di
nauces should particularly specify the pa,
ticulsr offense charged and the court Q
common council of New Haven, takin
this view few years ago, enacte
such an ordinance against policy playin
in which policy playing was described Il
detail, but Meriden in September, 1901
undertook to cover the whole ground b
the barest kind of an ordinance, which de-
clared all kinds of gambling unlawful, en-
ploying only the words used in the sta
ute without describing the separate of
) lenses except by naming them. The abov
ordinance, which will be reporte
for action to the board of aldel
men next Monday evening is
substitute for the Meriden ordinance.
New Haven already has a strong ordinane
against policy playing, and the stat
: statute give adequate provision againl
lotteries, there was no occasion for r,
ferring to them and ordinance to be r.
ported relates solely to the matter of POI
, selling, against which neither the stat
statutes nor the city ordinances mai
adequate provision.
The ordinance to be reported is base
on and is substantially similar to the vel
, known Massachusetts and Ohio statut,
Z. on the subject of pool selling.