The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-13

.ame # sold: all such acts. anu AZ pa
chsses and sales, or contracts anu IT,
,nents for the purchase ana sale " CO.
of the property aforesaid IN manner 49,, 20
said and all offers TO sell the SUM y.
purchase the same in manner h'o' &c
as well as all TRANSACTIONS !" nc
honds. petroleum, cotton eValuei on
,,rnvi.ions in the manner aioresh,u, y"
y, rcins for future or optional deilsert'
orc hereby declared gambling anu cilnl,
oaI acts. whether the persons DuyIns -,
EALING ar Offering 10 buy or sell ac.s ~,
L;,aseiI mr. as an agent. employee W
hroLer for any firm, co-partnersnlP' eo
ol oornoration, association or DroS'
er's office,
The second section says that upon de
mand OF any customer the c0hiniiSSi'"
man shall furnish the names oil the par
tics 70 whom the commodities have oeen
sold or from whom they have oeen
houeht, the time when, the place "nere
ond the price at which the same were
hongbt or sold, and in case such colniniS-
sion merchant shall refuse promptly 10
furnish such statement upon reasohaoi'
demand, the Tact OF such refusal snaii o'
n,;no sacie evidence that such property
was not sold or bought IN ieS'''""''
manner before the open market
The third section OF the act says iha'
any person who shall knowingly pern'
onv nj the acts set forth in Section IL
h;s bpildipg. house, or in any clubhouse
bootb. arbor or erection on when ne ha
rho title. care or possession shall be nne'
m. to sxceed the sum OF $1,000 ana th
coats of prosecution, and also that an
nersor who shall be guilty OF yiolatln
anv Of the provisions of Section OF tn'
oct shall. ypon conviction thereof
fined in a sum not less than SloV ~
more than $500 and costs oil prose''
lion. and if guilty OF second onen'
sball be imprisoned in the county All IL
the period OF SIX mouths.
II the mayor of jackson can epJo'u u
bucket shops from running in that GU
surely the presidents OF Red jacket al
Houghtop could so something, hthey 'e
inclined, towards putting a stop TO su.
places in their respective villages. IL
NEWS may be wrong, but in its opinio
such places are more liable to DO misch'
to our citizens than man strkipg
cards in a salo1,n with a squire mark'
on the back.
The persons. who let rooms To the
bucket shop Keepers can scaree'y
aware they ara ..ble to be fined IN u
sum o. 81, 600 OF they certainly woHid 7
fraln from letting t hem for such purpose
ss if COMPLIANT were lodged aEain
them. which mnsT ION be the ease II ii
authorities do. their Saty, at any IA
they are liable to it at any moment Il
fine they might De called upon to p"
would probably exceed many montn
rent. As the law s.ys the penalty ~
Judged shall be lien upen the pTemT
on and in which such unlawful ants p
| carried on, it would looa as il the owne
OF persons having an interest in su
buildings would ,, for their own st.kcs, =
such places were shut w, and at once.
= While on this bucket shop business,
y woul2 be as weA 10 csllh aetoDtior, ia
o failure Of the firm Of /. 2. Wizard &c
DO who were ut one time CONNECTED "
Id bucket shops in Chicago. Failure gel
re | Ill, FollO,ye a -uv az he al, lrclr nv t'hes.
re- responsible commission brokers.