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 412 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 40, 41. 1883. gambling dcvicc, adapted, devised, and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property, or who shall mdncc, cnticc ox- permit any person to bat or play at or upon any such gaming table or gambling device, or on the side or against the keeper thereof] pm,,,m,,_ shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of u, misdemeanor, uml shall bc punished by imprisonment; for ft term not; more than five years. Sec. 2.——'1‘hut; every person who shall, in the District 0t' Columbia, knowingly permit any gaming table, bank, ur device to be set up 01- uscd, for the purpose of gaming in any house, building, vessel, shed, booth, shelter, lot or other premises to him belonging, or by him occupied, or of which he hath ub the time the possession or control, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of :1. misdemeanor, and punished by imprisonment; for not more than one year, and by time not exceeding five hundred dollars. S20. 3.-That every person who shall, in the District of Columbia, deal, play 01* pmcticc, or be in any manner accessory to the dealing, play- ing or practicing of the confidence game or swiudle known as threecard monte or of any such game, play, or practice, or any other comidonco game, play or practice, shall be deemed guilty of n misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by u. fiuc not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, at hard labor, in the jail of the District, not mom than live years. Dah it;,,, of S20. 4.-That all games, devices, or conbrivances at which money or ter m gaming any other thing sw bcéwt or wngcrcd shall be dccmed u. gaming table uurdcd against. g Sec. 5.-That all laws inconsistent with this act nrc hereby repealed. Approved, January 31, 1883. O Jim. 31, 1883. CHAP. 41.-A11 act to increase the police force of the Districi of Columbia, md -————;—·. for other purposes. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _Incma•¤ of po- States of America in Congress assembled,, That section three hundred and H¤¤ *`<>¤=¤ *¤ I-W- forty of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the Dis- "il‘f §f§g“'B’*g“‘  of Columbia be, and the same hereby is amended so as to read as Am,,,,,;,,{  ‘0 ows: “Thc police. force shall consist of the following officcrs, namely: Ono major, one captain, tcm licubcnants, twenty sorgeants, such number of privates not exceeding two hundred and fifty for the rcgulaxysorvico, as the.G0mmissi0ucrs may deem necessary, and all promotions to the positions of captain, lieutenant, and sergeant shall be made hom the next succeeding grade or rank on the force." Demctgw, fom SEO. 2. That the detective force established by the aforesaid section ¤b¤1i¤hed,¤t¤. of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the District of ' Columbia, be and the same is hereby abolished. Dem; of m,,,, Sec. 3.-Thzxt the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are fmui police, au- hereby authorized to detail, from time to time, from the privntcs of tho of crime; and such privntcs so specially detailed shall be entitled to rc- Compensation. ccivc and shall be paid the compensation now allowed by law to the detective force ubolishcd by this act during such time as they shall continue so detailed by the order of tim Commissioners Appcimmmt of Sm?. 4.-Tlmt tim Commissioners muy, and they are hereby, authorm1.m;.,¤,,; Pqigco. ized to appoint not more than six privates to be members of the police men. fbrcc, from among citizens of the United émtcs who lmvc or have not served in thu Army and Navy of this United States, but who slmll pos- R.S.354,D.C.,42. mass nl! the otherq11:iIi§cntiu¤n prescribed by section dime hundred and
 * ¤U¤· within the mcam g of is act; and the courts shall construe the preceding sections liberally, so us to prevent the mischief intended to be
 * h°¤¤°**· police, such number of privatcs, not. exceeding six, as may in their judgment be necessary, for special service in the detection and prevention