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108 Section 381. Property offered for disposal in lotteries, forfeited.

382. Letting building for lottery purposes.

383. Lotteries out of this Territory.

384. Advertisements by persons out of the Territory.

Sec. 370. A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of properly by chance among persons who have paid or promised or agreed to pay any valuable consideration for the chance of obtaining such property or a portion of it, or for any share of, or interest in such property, upon any agreement, understanding or expectation that it is to be distributed or disposed of by lot or chance; whether called a lottery, a rafiſe, or a gift enterprise, or by whatever name the same may be known.

Sec. 371. Every lottery is unlawful and a common and public nuisance.

Sec. 372. Every person who contrives, prepares, sets up, proposes or draws any lottery, is punishable by a fine equal to double the amourt of the whole sum or value for which such lottery was made; and if such amount cannot be ascertained, then by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding two years, or by, imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine of two thousand five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 373. Every person who sells, gives, or in any manner whatever furnishes or transfers to or for any other person, any ticket, chance, share or interest, or any paper certificate or instrument, purporting or represented or understood to be, or represent any ticket, chance, share or interest in or depending upon the event of any lottery, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 374. Every person who buys, or in any manner whatever accepts or receives for himself or another, any ticket, chance, share or interest, or any paper, certificate or instrument, purporting or represented or understood to be, or to represent any ticket, chance, share or interest in or depending upon the event of any lottery, forfeits ten dollars, to be recor-