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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · April 29, 1878 · Chapter 68

Chapter 68.

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CHAP. 68.— AN ACT to prevent the sale of policy or lottery tickets in the District of Columbia.April 29, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Policy-lottery or policy-shop in District of Columbia. That if any person shall, within the District of Columbia, keep, set up, or promote, or be concerned as owner, agent, clerk, or in any other manner, in managing any policy-lottery or policy-shop, or shall sell or transfer any ticket, certificate, bill, token, or other device purporting or intended to guarantee or assure to any person, or entitle him to a chance of drawing or obtaining a prize, or share of, or interest in, any prize to be drawn in any lottery, or in the game or device commonly known as policy-lottery or policy; or shall, for himself or another person, sell or transfer, or have in his possession, for the purpose of sale or transfer, or shall aid in selling, exchanging, negotiating, or transferring a chance or ticket in, or share of a ticket in, any policy-lottery, or any such bill, certificate, token, or other device, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or bePenalty. imprisoned in the District jail not less than two mouths or more than one. year or both in the discretion of the court.
Sec. 2. That if any person shall knowingly permit in any house underPermitting house to be used for policy-lottery. his control, in the District of Columbia, the sale of any chance or ticket in, or share of a ticket in, any lottery or policy-lottery, or shall knowingly permit any lottery or policy-lottery or policy-shop in such house, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined notPenalty. less than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the District jail not less than two months or more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Approved, April 29, 1878.
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