The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-19

name or Is without a name, or wheth-
 re such game is played by means of
 gambling devices or without the
 means of gambling devices.
 A gambling device is hereby defined
 to be any device. instrument or thing
 which is adapted to or designed for
 use in gambling, or which may be used in playing any game of chance, ! skill, hazard or endurance, whether
 such device, instrument or thing, has
 name or is without a name.
 1 Section 2. Every person who shall keep, conduct or operate. or who shall be interested directly or indirectly in
 keeping, conducting or operating any gambling house or place where gam bling Is carried on, or who shall set
 up, keep or exhibit or cause to be set up, kept or exhibited, or assist in setting up. keeping or exhibiting any gambling device; or who shall be in- terested directly or indirectly in run ming any gambling house or in setting
 up and exhibiting any gambling de- vice or devices, either by furnishing
 money or other articles for the pur- pose of carrying on gambling, or be-
 ing interested in the loss or gain ot such prohibited gambling, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and on con- viction thereof shall be confined in
 the state penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.
 section g. Every house or place
 used as and for a gambling house, or in which gambling devices are set up
 or exhibited is hereby declared to be public nuisance, and any circuit court of this state before whom any person is convicted under Section Two of this Act, if the house or place where the gambling devices were set up or gambling was done is pointed out and identified in the evidence or otherwise at the trial where such con- viction is had, shall make an order directing the clerk of said court to
 issue notice to. and the sheriff to serve said notice upon the owner. agent in charge or lessee of the house or place so used to appear in said court within forty-eight hours after said notice is served on him and show
 cause why said nuisance shall not be abated. And if said owner, agent in
 charge or lessee shall fail to appear in said court pursuant to said notice or shall fail to abate said nuisance
 if so ordered by the court, within forty-eight hours after such order, he shall be deemed guilty of contempt. of court and shall be fined by the judge of the court making the order,
 sumarily, in any sum not less than fifty dollars and imprisoned in the
 county jail for a time not less than
 thirty days. If said owner agent in charge or lessee shall fail to abate said nuisance within forty-eight hours
 after being ordered by the court to
 do so, it shall then become the duty of the court to order the sheriff of
 the county to abate said nuisance, and if necessary for that purpose to close said house or place until the
 further order of the court, and if said sheriff shall fail neglect or refuse to execute the orGer of the court and abate said nuisance and make his re-
 turn thereof within forty-eight hours after receiving saiu order, he shall be deemed guilty of nonteasance in
 office and upon conviction thereof in [ the circuit court shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and removed from office for the term for which he may be sery- ing
 Section 4. Every person who shall be found lettering, or working in or
 about any building or other place in
 which gambling is carried on, either as booster, potter, waiter or other ! wise. or who shall be found acting as watchman or informant for per | sons operating or participating in any of the games herein mentioned, either in or outside Of said building or other 1 place, where gambling is carried on,
 shall be deemed and considered va- | grant and upon conviction shall be | punished by a fine of not less than
 ten dollars nor more than five hundred
 dollars and shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days
 nor more than twelve months.
 Section D. It shall be the duty Of
 every sheriff in this state, who has
 knowledge that the provisions of Sec
 tion Two of this Act are being viola l ted. or who is presented with an affi-
 dayit by any person that said section
 is being violated or that gambling of any kind is being done or carried on
 in any place in the county where such 1 officer resides, to go at once to tine
 place where such violation or gam bling is alleged to exist. and arrest l all persons found in such place, en- gagged in such violation, or gambling
 and to carry such person or persons l before some court of competent iuris- l diction for trial or examination, and 1 the failure of such officer to comply
 with the provisions of thls act or the failure of such officer to forthwith | execute any judgment or order of the