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Lotteries. one and 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.

§ 7220. Selling lottery tickets. 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 to represent any ticket, chance, share or interest in or depending upon the event of any lottery, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7221. Buying lottery tickets. 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 recovered by the county superintendent of common schools of the county in which the offense was committed, for the use of common schools in said county.

§ 7222. Advertising lotteries. Every person who, by writing or printing, by circulars or letters or in any other way, advertises or publishes any account of any lottery, stating when or where the same is to be or has been drawn, or what are the prizes or any of them therein, or the price of a ticket or of any share or interest or where it may be obtained, or in any way aiding or assisting the same or adapted to induce persons to adventure therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7223. Offering property by means of lottery. Every person who offers for sale, distribution or disposition in any way, any real or personal property or things in action, or any interest therein, to be determined by lot or chance, that shall be dependent upon the drawing of any lottery within or out of this state, and every person who sells, furnishes or procures or causes to be sold, furnished or procured in any manner whatsoever, any chance or share or any interest whatever in any property offered for sale, distribution or disposition in violation of this section, or any ticket or other evidence of any chance, share or interest in such property, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7224. Keeping lottery office. Every person who opens, sets up or keeps, by himself or by any other person or persons, any office or other place for registering the numbers of any ticket in any lottery, or for making, receiving or registering any bets or wagers upon the drawing, determination or result of any lottery, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

§ 7225. Advertising lottery offices. Every person who, by writing or printing, by circulars or letters or in any other way, advertises or publishes any account of the opening, setting up or keeping of any office or other place for either of the purposes prohibited by the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7226. Insuring lottery tickets. Every person who insures or receives any consideration for insuring for or against the drawing of any ticket share or interest in any lottery or for or against the drawing of any number or ticket or number of any ticket in any lottery; and every person who receives any valuable consideration upon any agreement to pay any sum, or to deliver any property or thing in action in the event that any ticket, share or interest in any lottery, or any number or ticket or number of any ticket in any lottery shall 1279