An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling: Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against the Evils of that Odious and Destructive Vice |
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An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling: Designed Especially as a ... Jonathan Harrington Green No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 301 - He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough. 20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Page 319 - That if any person shall keep a room, building, arbor, booth, shed, or tenement, to be used or occupied for gambling, or shall, knowingly, permit the same to be used or occupied for gambling...
Page 317 - The officer or person so named and designated in such order, shall immediately thereupon assume such custody, and shall retain the same for the purpose of evidence upon such trial, subject to the order of the court before which such offender may be required to appear, until his final discharge or conviction.
Page 319 - ... a sum not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall be...
Page 320 - ... five hundred dollars, to be paid into the treasury of the county where such conviction shall take place, for the use of common schools therein, to be divided among the accepting school districts in such county, in proportion to the number of taxable inhabitants in each district.
Page 171 - ... agree, the extra cards may be drawn by the dealer from his opponent's hand: and the same if the dealer gives himself too many cards. But, in either case, if a single card has been played, there must be a new deal. 3. No person can beg more than once in a hand, unless both parties agree.
Page 308 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 320 - Panama, shall keep or exhibit any gaming table, establishment, device, or apparatus, to win or gain money or other property of value, or shall aid, or assist, or permit others to do the same, or if any person shall engage in gambling for a livelihood, or shall be without any fixed residence, and in the habit or practice of gambling, he shall be deemed and taken to be a common gambler...
Page 317 - ... made punishable by this act, shall disclose any fact tending to criminate himself in any matter made punishable by this act, he shall thereafter be discharged of and from all liability to prosecution or punishment for such matter of offence.
Page 317 - ... possession of said property, and be responsible therefor until the discharge, or commitment, or letting to bail, of the person so charged, and in case of such commitment or letting to bail of the person so charged, such officer shall retain such property, subject to the order of the court before which such offender may be required to appear, until his discharge or conviction. And in case of the conviction of such person the...