BILLIARD TABLES AND BOWLING ALLEYS. 41 STATUTES. 1. The mayor and aldermen or selectmen of any city or town may grant a license to any person to keep a billiard table or bowling alley for hire, gain, or reward, upon such terms and conditions as they deem proper, to be used for amusement merely, but not for the purpose of gaming for money or other property. Such license may be revoked at the pleasure of the authority granting it. 2. Whoever without such license keeps or suffers to be kept in a house, building, yard, or dependency thereof, by him actually occupied or owned, a table for the purpose of playing at billiards, or a bowling alley for the purpose of playing at bowls, for hire, gain, or reward, or for hire, gain, or reward suffers any person to resort to the same for such purpose, shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. 3. The keeper of a billiard room or table, or bowling alley, who admits a minor thereto without the written consent of his parent or guardian, shall forfeit ten dollars for the first, and twenty dollars for each subsequent offence. 4. Any marshal or his deputy, sheriff or his deputy, constable, police officer, or watchman, may at any time enter into a billiard room, bowling alley, or other room connected therewith, for the purpose of enforcing any law of the State; and whoever obstructs or hinders the entrance of such officer shall be punished by fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. Penalty on inn- holders, &c., for ing for money, &c. 3 Met. 130. 9 Met. 572. 5. Every innholder, common victualler, or person, keeping, or suffering to be kept, in any place occupied by him, any implements such as are used in gaming, in order that the same may for hire, gain, or reward, be used for purposes of amusement, who suffers any implements of that kind to be used upon any part of his premises for the purpose of gaming for money or other property, or who suffers a person to play at an unlawful game or sport therein, shall for the first offence forfeit a sum not exceeding one See § 9. hundred dollars, or bè imprisoned in the house of correction for a term not exceeding three months; and, for every subsequent offence, shall be imprisoned in the house of correction for a term not exceeding one year; and in either case shall further recognize, with sufficient sureties in a reasonable sum, for his good behavior, and especially that he will not be guilty of any offence against the provisions of chapter eighty-five of the General Statutes, for three years then next ensuing. 6. Whoever in any place mentioned in the preceding section Penalty for gam and in places li- ing in such places, for the purpose of gaming for money or other property, uses or takes part in using any billiard table, bowling alley, or other implements of gaming, or there plays at an unlawful game or sport, or, for the purpose of such gaming, uses or takes part in using a billiard table or bowling alley kept by a person licensed as provided in chapter eighty-eight of the General Statutes, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence. Punishment for keeping common gaming house. lbid. § 7. G. S. 85, § 7. Gaming at muster, Penalty on inn- G. S. 84, § 11. 7. Whoever keeps a common gaming house, or in a building, booth, yard, or garden, by him actually used and occupied, commonly keeps or suffers to be kept, any tables or other apparatus for the purpose of playing at any unlawful game or sport for money or any other valuable thing,1 shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and be committed to the house of correction for a term not exceeding six months and not less than thirty days; and shall also recognize with sufficient sureties in a reasonable sum for his good behavior, and especially that he will not be guilty of any offence against the provisions of chapter eighty-five of the General Statutes, for three years next ensuing.2 8. Whoever during, or within twelve hours of the time of holding, a cattle-show, military muster, or public gathering, within one mile of the place thereof, practises or engages in any gambling or unlawful game, shall forfeit for each offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. If he is discovered in the act, he may be arrested by any sheriff, deputy-sheriff, constable, or other civil officer, and lawfully detained, by imprisonment in jail or otherwise, not exceeding twenty-four hours, until a complaint is made against him for the offence. 9. Any innholder, common victualler, or person keeping or suffering to be kept in any place occupied by him, implements such as are used in gaming, in order that the same may, for hire, gain, or reward, be used for purposes of amusement, who, on the Lord's day, uses, or suffers to be used, any implements of that kind upon any part of his premises, shall for the first offence forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the house of correction not exceeding three months; and for every subsequent offence shall be imprisoned in the house of correction for a term not exceeding one year; and in either case, shall further recognize, with sufficient sureties, in a reasonable sum for his good behavior and especially that he will not be guilty of any offence against the 1 For penalty for exhibition of fighting birds or animals, see amusements, ante.· 2 The provisions of Gen. Stats. c. 88, § 32, shall apply to the erection, occupation, or use of buildings for bowling alleys in any city. See Buildings, post. BILLIARD TABLES AND BOWLING ALLEYS. " 43 what it includes. provisions of this section, for the space of three months then next "Lord's day,' ensuing. The Lord's day shall include the time from midnight to midnight. 10. If a person makes oath before a justice of the peace or police court that he suspects, or has probable cause to suspect, that a house or other building is unlawfully used as and for a common gaming-house, for the purpose of gaming for money or other property, and that idle and dissolute persons resort to the same for that purpose, such justice or court, whether the names of the persons last mentioned are known to the complainant or not, shall issue a warrant commanding the sheriff, or his deputy, or any constable, to enter into such house or building, and there to arrest all persons who are there found playing for money or otherwise, and also the keepers of the same, and to take into their custody all the implements of gaming as aforesaid, and to keep said persons and implements so that they may be forthcoming before some court or magistrate, to be dealt with according to law; and whoever is there found so playing, shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding fifty dollars. RULES AND REGULATIONS.1 1. ORDERED, That the city clerk be directed to issue licenses to such keepers of billiard saloons and bowling alleys, as shall be approved by this board, on the terms and conditions prescribed by law, and also on condition that the several keepers of such saloons and alleys shall pay therefor the sum of five dollars for one alley or billiard table, and three dollars for each alley or billiard table more than one, which is kept under the ownership or control of one individual. G. S. 84, § 12. Common gaming houses to be arrested. entered and parties G. S. 85, § 8. 11 Met. 79. License; how granted. liquors to be sold. 2. ORDERED, That no license shall be hereafter No intoxicating issued for any billiard saloon, or bowling alley, March 11, 1867. in this city, where intoxicating liquors are sold or used on the premises. And any violation of this rule will be considered a good cause for the revocation of any license. 1 Rules and regulations relating to bowling alleys and billiard saloons, passed by board of aldermen September 24, 1860; and March 11, 1867. STATUTES. 1. The mayor and aldermen and selectmen of cities and towns where lighters or other vessels are employed in transporting stones, gravel, or sand, shall annually, in March or April, appoint one or more weighers of vessels, who shall be sworn. Board of Alderweighers of vessels, who shall be men shall appoint sworn. G. S. 19, § 17. G. S. 52, § 30. 11 Met. 59. See § 10. Vessels, &c., to be marked. 2. Every lighter or other vessel employed in transporting stone sold by weight, or gravel, or sand, shall be marked on the stem and stern post nearly level with the bend of the vessel, with stationary marks of bar iron, not less than six inches in length, and two and G. S. 52, § 31. a half inches in breadth, fastened with two good and sufficient iron bolts, driven through said stem and stern post and riveted into said bar iron, from which all other marks shall take their distance in feet, inches, and parts of inches, as the distance may require, from the lower edge of the stationary marks to the lower edge of the other marks; which marks shall be as follows: light- Marks. water marks not less than four inches in length and one inch and a half in breadth; and every four tons above said light-water marks legibly cut, or cast, in figures of 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and so forth, up to the full capacity of the vessel. Said figures shall express the weight which such vessel is capable of carrying when the lower part of the respective numbers aforesaid shall touch the water; and all the marks shall be of good and sufficient lead or copper, fastened on the stem and stern post of each vessel with sufficient nails, not less than one inch in length. 3. Each weigher, when thereto requested, shall furnish the requisite marks and nails, and shall cause lighters and other vessels to be weighed and marked in conformity with the provisions of the preceding section; and during the time of weighing and marking them, all persons employed on board shall be stationed between the bulkhead and the fore chains. He shall keep a correct account of the distance of each mark below the stationary marks, in feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a book provided for that purpose, and give a certificate thereof, expressing the distance, to the master of every such vessel. of what material, and how to be fastened. Duty of Weighers. Ibid. § 32. 4. In taking the tonnage of every such vessel, a deduction may Deduction may be be made of one ton for every inch that the light-water marks may be under water, after such vessel has discharged her loading. 5. Every person on board of such vessel, who does not keep within the bounds of the bulkhead and fore chains during the time of taking her marks, or while any weigher is employed in weighing or marking, unless in case of absolute necessity, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. made of one ton for Persons on board, while marks are Ibid. § 34. |