The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-03-16
For the Bill to Prohibit Gam
bling in All Its Forms
Has Been Signed.
NOT EVEN SENATORIAL POKER SAVED,
Montana Will Soon Put on a
Good Old Fashioned
Sunday Air.

Governor Richards has signed the
anti-gambling bill and it will take
effect on July }. The text is as fol-
lows; "Every person who deals, plays,
carries on, opens or causes to be
opened, or who conducts either as
owner or as employe, whether for hire
or not, any game of faro, monte,
roulette, lansquenet, rouge ,et-noir,
rondo, tan, fan tan, stud horse poker,
seven -and-a-half, twenty one, draw
poker, or any banking or percentage
game played with cards, dice, or any
device, for money, checks, credit, or
any representative of value, is pun
ishable by fine not less than two hun
dred nor more than 81 900, and must
be imprisoned in the county Jail un-
til such fine and costs of prosecution
are paid, such Imprisonment not to
exceed one year; and every person
who plays or bets at or against any
of said prohibited game or games is
guilty of msdemeanor.
'tvery person who knowingly
permits any of the games mentioned
in the preceding sections to be
played, conducted or dealt in any
house owned or rented by such per-
son, in whole or in part, is punishable
as provided in the preceding sec
ton.
Every person who by the game of
three card monte, so called, or any
other game, device, slight of hand,
pretensions or fortune telling, trick,
or other means whatever, by use of
cards or other instruments, or imple-
ments, or while betting on sides or
hands of any such play or game,
frandulently obtain from another
person money or property of any
description, must be punished as in
the case of larceny of property of
like value.
Every person duly summoned as
witness for the prosecution, on any
proceedings had under this chapter,
who neglects or refuses to attend, as
required, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
"No person, otherwise competent
as witness, is disqualified from tes-
tifying as such concerning the off
ense of gaming, on the ground that
such testimony may criminate him
self; but no prosecution can after
ward be had against him for any off
ense concerning which he has testi-
| fed.
every county attorney, sheriff,
constable or police officer must in
form against and diligently prosecute
persons whom they have reasonable
cause to believe offenders against the
provisions of this chapter, and every
such officer refusing or neglecting to
do so is guilty of a misdemeanor.
'Every owner or lessee, or keeper,
of any house used in whole or in
part as saloon or drinking place,
who knowingly permits any person
under q years of age to play at any
game of chance therein, is guilty of
"a misdemeanor.
"Every state, county, city, town
or township officer, or other person
who shall ask for, receive or collect
any money, or other valuable CON
sideration, either for his own or the
public use, for and with the under
standing that he will aid, exempt, or
otherwise assist any person from ar
rest or conviction for violation of
section 36O of the penal code, or who
shall issue, deliver, or cause to be
given or delivered, to any person or
persons, any license, permit, or other
privilege, giving, or pretending to
give, any authority or right to any
person or persons to carry on, con
duct, open, or cause to be opened,
any game or games which are for
hidden by section 800 of said code,
and any such officer or officers who
shall vote for the passage of any or