The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-03-10
YOLO'S GAMING ORDINANCE.
1T is AIMED AGAINST POOL
SELLING.
The Ordinance Will Go Into Effect
on the gath Of This
Month.

The Woodland Mall" of yesterday
published the new anti-pool selling ordi-
nance passed by the Supervisors of Yolo
County on Tuesday, and which is de-
signed to break UP the pool joints that
are being operated in the town of Wash
ington by Sacramentans. The ordinance
reads:
AN ordinance prohibiting persons
from engaging in selling pools or book
making or making bets or wagers on
horse racing where money or other art
icies of value are staked or pledged or
in placing of money for such purpose by
carriers, agents, brokers or commission
ers.
The Board Of Supervisors of the
County of Yolo, State of California do
ordain as follows:
Section L. No person within the linn
its of said Yolo County, except as here
matter specified, upon any trial, or con-
test of skill, speed, or power of endur-
ance between horses shall sell any pool
OF pools, or make any book list or MEM
orandum for or on which money or other
articles of value as a stake or pledge,
upon the happening or non-happening OF
any event, or sell, issue or dispose of any
ticket, certificate or other evidence of
payment on which shall be inscribed,
written, marked or printed, any number,
name, word or mark. or anything to deS-
ignate the choice selected, received, or
accepted by any other person to entitle
or enable the said person holding the
said ticket, certificate, or other evidence
Of payment to gain or lose any contin-
gent issue, or receive any money or ar
ticle of value, as a bet, wager or hazard
upon the event of any contest or con-
tingent issue, or as a stake or pledge
between two or more parties, or to dis
burse the said money or any portion of
the said money, or anything representing
money or other article of value, upon
any representation or condition, or in
conformity to, or with any express or
tacit understanding or agreement; or re-
ceive any money or article of value, or
representative of money or any article
of value, in any capacity whatsoever, for
the purpose Of taking or sending the
same to any fair or race track enclosure,
either within or without this State,
where such contest Of skill, speed, or
power of endurance has been or is here
after to be made or upon any horse an
gagged therein, or connected Herewith;
provided, however, that horse racing
without regard to the distance which
may be run, trotted or paced, where the
same is run, trotted or paced upon
race track or path made or kept for the
purpose, and enclosed by a substantial
fence are not within the prohibitions of
this article, but it shall be unlawful
gaming to bet or wager in any way upon
any horse race, unless the race track
upon which the race is run, trotted or
paced be enclosed by substantial fence,
and the bet or wager be made within
said enclosure upon a race to be run,
trotted or paced within said enclosure,
and such persons as make such bets
and wagers in said enclosure of said
race track, as aforesaid, are not inhibited
by the above terms of this ordinance.
Section 2 No person shall knowing
ly lease or rent or allow to be occupied
or used, any building, structure, room,
apartment, place or any premises what
ever for the purposes specified, men
toned and prohibited in section l Of this
ordinance.
Section g. Any person violating any
of the provisions Of this act and ordi-
nance shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
and upon conviction, shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars, or more than two
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in
the County Jail not exceeding thirty
days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment."