Section 19Part 0 —
Common gaming house, what included in
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Save as hereinafter provided, no house, office, room or other place shall be opened, kept or used for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of the owner, occupier or keeper thereof, or any person using the same or any person having the care or management or in any way conducting the business thereof or by or on behalf of any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper or person using, or having the care or management of the business, as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise or agreement, express, implied or understood, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any game, pretended game or lottery called or known as Peaka Pow or Drop Pan, or to any game of a similar nature or to any lottery, raffle, game or pretended game of chance, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency as aforesaid, and every house, office, room or other place opened, kept or used for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, shall be taken and deemed to be a common gaming house within the meaning of this Law.