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Section 1. Every person who shall set up or promote any lottery for money, or shall dispose of any property of value, real or personal, by way of lottery, and every person who shall aid, either by printing or writing, or shall in any way be concerned in setting up, managing, or drawing any such lottery, or who shall, in any house, shop, or building owned or occupied by him, or under his control, knowingly permit the setting up, managing, or drawing of any such lottery, or the sale of any lottery ticket, or share of a ticket, or any other writing, certificate, bill, token, or any other device purporting or intended to entitle the holder, bearer, or any other person to any prize or interest, or share of any prize to be drawn in a lottery, shall, for every such offense, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, nor less than one month.

Sec. 2. Every person who shall sell, either for himself or for any other person, or shall offer for sale, or shall have in bis possession with intent to sell or to offer for sale, or to exchange or negotiate, or shall in any wise aid or assist in tho selling, negotiating, or disposing of a ticket in any such lottery, or a share of a ticket, or any such writing, certificate, bill, token, or other device, as is mentioned in the preceding section, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars.

Sec. 3. If any person shall, after being convicted of any offense mentioned in either of the two preceding sections, commit the like offense, or any other of the offenses therein mentioned, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison, not more than two years, nor less than six months.

Sec. 4. Every person who shall advertise any lottery ticket, or any share in any such ticket for sale, either by himself or any other person, or who shall set up or exhibit any sign, symbol, or any emblematic or other representation of a lottery, or of the drawing thereof, or any such writing, certificate, bill, token, or other device before mentioned, or where the same