BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1902-09-15
The GIIIllIHIl Low.

lllO uuiIlD'llly LuH-
To Prohibit Certain Games of
Chance, And To IProvide-Penal-l
ties For The Violation Thereof.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly
of Porto Rico
Section Amy person who shall be
detected playing, for money or for any
other thing of value, the game Of cards
commonly known as "monte" or any
other game of change where money or
any other thing Of value may be won
or lost, or any person who shall be
found using any instrument or machine
with which money may be won or lost;
shall be punished, upon conviction
thereof, for the first offense; by a fine
which shall not be more than fifty or less
than ten dollars, and for every repeti-
tion thereof he shall be punished by a
fine of not more than two hundred or
less than fifty dollars, or by inprison-
ment for term of not more than three
or less than one month, or by both such
fine and imprisonment, at the discretion
of the court. |
Section Amy person who shal
keep 4 gambling house where such
games, machines or instruments as are
referred to in the preceding section are
allowed to be played or used, shall be
punished, for the first offense by fine
which shall not exceed three hundred
or be less than one hundred dollars,
and for subsequent offenses shall be
punished by fine which shall not
exceed one thousand or be less than
two hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment for six months, or by both penal
ties, at the discretion of the court.
Section 3.-Any person who shall
compel or induce any minor to enter
any gambling house or to do any act
in violation of the provisions of Section
of this Act, upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine of not more
than two hundred dollars or imprison-
ment for not more than six months, or
by both.
Section 4th.-Every gambling table,
and all money, cards or any other
/ object found in use at any gambling
= house in violation of Section of this
5 Act, shall be seized by the police and
5 placed at the disposal of the court, and
: the court shall decree the destruction
5 of said objects; Provided however,
: that such moneys as may be seized
: pursuant to the provisions of the Section,
shall accure to the school fund of the
municipality where such seizure shall
have been made.
| Section 5.-All fines imposed in con-
lorn1ity with the provisions of this Act
2 shall accrue to the treasury of the rnu-
nicipality where the ofense shall have
S been committed.
Section 6.-Any note bond, transfer
! of property or any other thing of value
: or of any kind Of document given to
any persons by any other person or
$ persons in payment Of money lost in any
? ot the games referred to in Section 1 Of
this Act is voidable, except in the hands
! ofan innocent purchaser for valuable con
, sideration and the person or persons who
r shall have executed such documents or
, made such transfers, or the parents,
7 wife, husband, heirs; guardian, legal re.
: presentatives or creditors of the person
), who shall give such documents or make
: such transfers may demand, in the pro.
), per court, that the same be declared
? null and void and upon proper proof
l that such documents were delivered or
5 transfers were made in payment Of
I money lost in any game mentioned in
t Section 1 of this Act, the court shall
ri
and void
Section when any person shall
have lost any property OF money in any
: OF the games Of chance or machines or
! instruments referred to in Section I of
this Act, the said person Or his or her
wife Or husband, heirs. guardian, legal
representatives or creditors may recover
. such property or money so lost and
). shall have the right, for this purpose,
to bring civil action against the per,
: son or persons who shall have won the
said property or money or against the
person keeping OF who may have kept
the gambling house where such loss
occurred, or against the person who,
knowingly, shall have rented, lent, ced-
ed or given the house in which such
loss occurred for gambling purposes
Section 8.-When any person or per-
sons shall make use of the right grant.
: ed by Sections 6 and = of this Act, they
, snail not be punished by any court
because of any violation of Section Of
: this Act.
Section o.-The term ''gambling hou-
Sc shall, for the purposes of this Act
be construed to mean all such public or
private places where, for money or for
any other thing Of value, the game of
cards commonly known as monte" or
any other game of chance by which mo
Iney or any other property is won or
lost or in which any Instrument or.
machine is used by which money may
be won or lost.
/ Section Io.-The irsular and NUM-
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