The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-24
AN ORDINANCE

| Regulating pool rooms and turf ex-
| changes in the city of Shreveport
| Louisiana.
| Section I. Be it ordained by the city
council of the city of Shreveport, in
regular session convened, that from and
after the first day of July, 1908, all pool
rooms and turf exchanges in said city
shall be confined to the following dis
| trict, to-wit: Beginning at intersection
iof Cypress avenue and Texas and Pa
cific railway on Common street and in
Guiding lots 1, 9 and 10, in block I;
thence up Common street to alley be-
Tween Caddo street and Fannin street
| thence up said alley to, Beauregard
street; thence along Beauregard street
| up to and including lots and Io-acre
lot 2; thence along south line of lots
and ? hereinbefore mentioned to Hum
ter street; thence UP Hunter street to
alley between Elm and Christian streets;
thence up. said alley to Texas and Pa
ciic railway; thence down Texas and
| Pacific railway to point of BEGINNING
and it is hereby made unlawful for pool
| rooms Or turf exchanges to be open,
conducted or operated outside of said
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Sec. g. Be it further ordained, that
any owner, operator, manager or en-
ploye of any pool room or turf exchange
| who shall violate the provisions of this
ordinance by operating or conducting a
Ipool room or turf exchange shall be
fined not less than twenty-five ($2s)
dollars and ten days Imprisonment, nor
more than one hundred .($Ioo) dollars
| and ten days imprisonment, and in de-
fault of paying said fine shall work out
same on the streets and alleys or other
public works of the city at the rate OF
one ($D dollar per dav for each day of
labor performed.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, that
each day on which a pool room Or turf
exchange shall be operated outside OF
said limits shall constitute separate
Ioffense on the part of each and every
person conducting same whether as
IoWners or employees
Sec. q. Be it further ordained, that
! the owners Or operators Or managers or
employees Of pool rooms Or turf ex-
changes shall not aerrlit minors to buy
any tickets, make any bets, or partici-
pate in any way in. the proceedings car
RED on in said pool rooms or turf ex-
changes. 49, sss=zz@#ss
Any one who shall violate the proyis-
ions of this section shall, upon convic-
ton, be fined not less than twenty five
($e5) dollars and ten days imprison-
ment, nor more than one hundred dol
lars ($Ioe) and ten days Imprisonment
for each ofense, and on failure to pay
said fine shall be ordered to work out
same on the streets, alleys or other pub
lie places of said city at the rate of one
($I) dollar per day for each day OF
labor performed.
Sec. S. Be it further ordained, that
all other laws or parts of laws or ordi-
nances regulating poll rooms and turf
exchanges in the city of Shreveport,
Louisiana, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Read the second and third time and
passed through second and third read
ings by following vote:
Ayes: Allen, Busbey, Conger. Currie,
Dickson, Foster, Jenkins, Iedbetter,
LoWentha1, Quigles, Rand, Snyder, Tho
man, Tusten, Wise.
Nays: None.
ANDREW QUERIES, Mayor.
c. G..RIVES, Comptroller.
T. G. HAYES, S.
Auditor and ex-Ohicio Secretary.
June II, 1908. J: