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viction thereof, fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court,
not exceeding five hundred dollars or six months.

60. If the owner, tenant or occupant of any house, vessel or
other place, shall knowingly permit any gaming table to bo kept
therein, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, shall suffer the penalties prescribed in the preceding
section.

61. Any person who may lose money at a gaming table, may
recover back the same as if it were a common debt, and may be
a competent witness to prove the sum he lost, but no person shall
recover any money or other thing which he may have won by
betting at any game or by betting in any manner whatsoever.

62. All games, devices and contrivances at which money or
any other thing shall be bet or wagered, shall be deemed a
gaming table within the meaning of the preceding sections.

63. Any person who shall win any money or other thing by
the thimbles, or what is called the little joker, or by any other
device, or fraudulent trick whatsoever, on conviction thereof,
shall be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two
years, and fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.

64. The courts shall construe the preceding sections relating
to gambling and betting liberally, so as to prevent the mischiefs
intended to be provided against.

65. No person shall refuse to testify concerning any gaming or
betting because his testimony would implicate himself, but when
any such person is required to testify in behalf of the State, he
shall not be prosecuted for any offence to which his testimony

relates.

66. All constables and police officers are required to visit all
places where they shall have reason to suspect gaming tables are
kept, and to have all persons prosecuted offending against the
laws prohibiting gambling.

GUNNING.

67. Every person who shall, upon any pretence whatever, come
to hunt with gun or dog upon the lands of another, without leave