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<br />ordinance is hereby declared a nuisance, ant NUMBER XXII.
<br />the marshal upon order of the mayor to
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<br /> AN ORDINANCE to define and punish gaming.
<br />.~rson violating any of the provisions of
<br /> SECTIO~ ~. If any person shall play at any game with cards
<br />6, shall be fined not less than ten nor more at any house for retailing spirituous liquors, store house, tavern,
<br />ars for each offense; each day any person inn, or any other public house or in any street, highway or other
<br />building, roof or repairs to remain, shall public place, or in any out house where people resort he shall be
<br />ffense.
<br /> fined not less than ten, nor more than twenty-five dollars.
<br />;rson violating any of the provisions of sec-
<br /> SEc. 2. All houses commonly known as public, and all gam-
<br />~ ordinance, shall be fined not more thru ing houses are included within the meaning of the preceding sec-
<br />be unlawful for any person to erect an' tion; any room attached to such public house and commonly used
<br /> for gaming is also included within the meaning of the preceding
<br />tory, or machinery of any kind, run or pro- section; any room attached to such public house and commonly
<br />the fire limits, as fixed by this ordinance, used for gaming is also included whether the same be kept closed
<br />g this section shall be deemed guilty of a or open, a private room of an inn or tavern is not within the mean-
<br />:onviction thereof before the mayor, shall lng of public places unless such room is commonly used for gam-
<br />:less than twenty.five nor more than one
<br /> irlg, nor is a private business office or a private residence to be
<br />ch day any person shall run or operate am construed as within the meaning of a public house or place, pro-
<br />fy, or machinery, shall be deemed a sep- vided, said private residence shall not be a house for retailing
<br /> - - spirituous liquors.
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<br />NUMBER XXI. SEc. 3' In prosecuting under the two preceding sections it
<br /> shall not be necessary for the city to prove that any money or ar-
<br />,ANTIN'G PROSTITUTES.
<br /> he gallanting, promcn'ading or associating with commm ticle of value or the representative of either was bet at such game;
<br /> .~ wea~ing of disguise, etc. the offense is complete without such proof.
<br /> I be unlawful for any male person to gal- SEc. 4' If any person shall bet or wager at any gaming
<br /> ,clare with any common prostitute on the table, or bank, or pigeon-hole, or jenny-lind table, nine or ten-pin
<br /> es, alleys or any other public place within alley, such as are mentioned in Articles 358, 359 and 36o, of the
<br /> e city of Paris, and on conviction before Penal Code of the State of Texas, or shall bet or wager any
<br /> >e fined in any sum not exceeding twenty- money or other thing of value at any of the games included in Ar-
<br /> ticles 358, 359 and 360 of the Penal Code of the State of Texas,
<br /> ~ unlawful for any person to be found or at any of the following games, viz: Poker-di'ce, jack-pot,
<br /> rtainlng to the sex to which they belong, high-dice, high-die, low-dice, low-die, dominoes, euchre with
<br /> 'ithin the corporate limits of this city, and dominoes, poker with dominoes, sett with' dominoes, muggins,
<br /> nayor's court, shall be fined in auy sum crack loo, crack or loo, or at any game of any character whatever,
<br /> dollars, that can be played with dice or dominoes or on any table, bank or
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