The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-09-17
A ANTI LAW
IS GIVEN EXPLANATION
Gaming in the State of Nevada Must Come 70 an end at
Midnight. October !, l9lO--.Card Parties Where
Prizes are Not Played for Do Not Come
Under the Ban of the Law

The following explanation of tn,
gambling law which goes into effect OF
the first day of October, has been mad,
by District Attorney Reeves of Whit,
Pine county in the White Pine News:
To the Public:
AS this office has been requested by
so many persons for an opinion in re
gard TO the gambling law" passed by
the last legislature and approved
March "a, 1909, / have examined into
the law carefully and find the same to
go into effect on the first day of DC.
tober, 1910, at midnight on hat day.
Section l reads: "This act shall be
in effect from and after the first day of
October, 1870" Gambling may be con
Quoted until midnight of the first day
of October, but not upon the I'd day of
October.
Gambling is prohibited in all forms.
Section i says: "It shall be unlawful
to deal, play or carry on, open or con-
duet in any capacity whatever the
games of faro, roulette, lansquente,
rouge ct noir, rondo, tan f%an-tan, stud
horse poker, seven-and-a-half, twenty
one, hockey pokey, craps, klondyke,
poker, whist, bridge whist, five hum
dred, solo, frog or any other card game,
or any banking game or percentage
game played with cards, dice, or any
device, for money, property, checks,
credit or any representative value; or
any gambling game in which any per-
son keeping, conducting, managing or
permitting the same to be carried on
receives directly or indirectly any com
pensation or reward, or any percentage
or share of the money or property play
ed, for keeping, running, carrying on
or permitting the said game to be car
rying on or permitting the said game
to be carried on; or to play, maintain
or keep any slot machine played for
money or for checks or tokens redeem
able in money; or buy, sell, or deal in
pools or make books in horse races
The clause which reads: "Or any
gambling game in which any person
keeping, conducting, managing or per-
hitting the same to be carried IN re-
ceive, directly or indirectly, any com
pensation or reward or any percentage
or share of the money or property play
ed, for keeping, running, carrying on
or permitting the said game to be car
ried on" cover every game of chance,
and cigar slot machines played for re-
ward is gambling; any game played for
a representative of value, or any game
of chance, whether payable in mer-
chandise or payable in money or in any
thing of value, is gambling under the
statute and the penalty is a state pri-
son offense, not less than one year or
more than five.
Section 2 prohibits games or slot ma-
chimes to be kept in the house rented
by the owner, knowing the same to be
used for gambling purposes. The own
er is as liable as the one who operates
the game.
Section 3 prohibits the keeping, ex-
hibiting or having in his possession any
cards, gambling tables, checks, wheels,
slot machines, or gambling devices OF
anv nature used or kept for the pur-
pose of playing any of the games men
toned in Section l; or any person who
shall aid, assist or permit others to do
the same is liable under the gambling
law.
1t is the duty of all peace officers
who know that any person is IN pos
session of any cards, tables, checks,
balls. wheels or slot machines or
any gambling device of any nature
TO seize the same and to take the
same before the magistrate in whose
township the said device may be