The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-07-19
CITY ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE.

To Prohibit Gambling and Pool Selling
in the City of Birmingham, Alabama,
on Horse Races, or What Purports to
Be Horse Races, Either Within or
Without the State.
Sec. /, Be 1t ordained by the mayor and
aldermen of Birmingham, that 1t shall
be unlawful for any person, either as
principal or agent. in the City Of Bir-
mingham, to buy or sell any pool, ticket,
chance or other Device or to make or
take or hold any wager, or to enter into
any transaction whereby money or other
valuable thing may be won or lost upon
the running, pacing or trotting, or what
purports to be the running, pacing or
trotting, either within or without the
state, of any mare, horse or gelding or
what purports to be a mare, horse or
gelding or upon any horse race,
or what purports to be a morse race,
whether within or without this state.
Sec 2, Be 1t further ordained, that II
shall be unlawful for any person In the
city of Birmingham, to act as agent for
any other person in procuring or placing
outside this state for such other person
any pool, ticket, chance, wager or other
device, or to do anything in the city of
Birmingham TO aid any other person In
entering into any transaction whereby he
may win or lose money or other valuable
thing upon the running, pacing or trot-
ting, or upon what purports to be the
running. pacing or trotting, either within
without this state of any mare, horse
or geldng, or what purports to be a mare,
horse or gelding, or upon any horse race,
or what purports to be a horse race,
whether within or without this state.
Sec. 3, Be it further ordained, that 1t
shall be unlawful for any person in the
city of Birmingham, to give or take or
receive from another any money or other
valuable thing to be bet or hazarded, or
to be used in buying any pool, ticket,
chance, wager or other device, or any in
terest in any such pool, ticket, chance,
wager or other device. upon the running,
pacing or trotting, or what purports to
be the running, pacing or trotting eth
err within or without this state, of any
mare, horse or geldng, or what purports
to be mare, horse or gelding, or upon
any race horse, either within or without
any race horse, either within or without
this state
Sec. 4, Be 1t further ordained, that It
shall be unlawful for any person, in the
city of Birmingham. to carry on or to
conduct the practices commonly known
as book-making or pool selling, or either
of them, or to keep or to be interested
in the keeping of a place to which per-
sons shall resort for engaging in such
practices, or either of them. or for bet
ting upon the event of the running pac-
ing or trotting, or what purports to be
the running, pacing or trotting, of any
horse, mare or gelding, or what purports
to be horse, mare or gelding or upon
any horse race. or what purports to be
any horse race, either within or without
this state, or shall keep or shall be in
terested In the keeping of a place to
which persons shall resort for engaging
in the practices of buying or selling pools,
chances, wagers, or other devices, or
either of them, Upon the pacing, running
or trotting, what purports to be the
running, pacing or trotting, either within
or without this state OF any mare, horse
or gelding, or what purports to be any
mare, horse or gelding. or upon any
horse race. or upon what purports to be
any horse race, either within or without
this state.
Sec 5, Be II further ordained that It
shall be unlawful for any person in any
opera house, hotel, telegraph office, or in
any public building in the city of Bir-
mingham, or in any private building in
said city, to which the public generally
of the city of Birmingham nave access
to call out the progress or what purports
to be the progress or to announce the re-
suit or what purports 10 be the result
of the running. trotting or pacing or
or pacing of any horse mare or gelding,
or what purports to be a horse. mare or
gelding, either within or without this
state, or Of any horse race, or what pur-
ports to be a horse race. either within or
without this state.
Sec. g. Be 1t further ordained that 1t
shall be unlawful for any person to keep
or to be interested in keeping any opera
house. hotel or telegraph office. or any
public building in the city of Birming-
ham, or any private building in the said
city, to which the public generally Of
said city have access, in which the pro-
gress. or what purports % be the pro-
gress. or the result, or what purports to
be the result is announced of a running,
trotting or pacing or what purports to
be the running. trotting or pacing of any
horse. mare or gelding. or what purports
to be the running of any mare. horse or
gelding. either within or without this
state. or Of any horse race. or what pur-
ports to be horse race, either within or
without this state.
Sec T. Be it further ordained. that 1t