DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ticket or prize, or to assure or entitle any person or persons
to any prize or interest whatsoever, that shall be dependent
on the drawing or determination of any lottery or other de-
vice or game of chance, or of the offer thereof, or of the a-
greement therefor, shall be conclusive evidence that such
ticket, share or part of a ticket, or prize, certificate, assur-
ance, writing, instrument, paper or token, was signed, issu-
ed and given according to the purport thereof; and it shall
not be necessary on any trial civil or criminal, to prove the
existence of any lottery, device or game of chance, in con-
nection with which any such ticket, share or part of a tick-
et, or prize certificate, assurance, writing, instrument, pa-
per or token, shall purport to have been given, issued or
signed, or the signing of any such ticket, part or share of a
ticket, assurance, certificate, writing, paper or token, in any
such real or pretended lottery, or other device or game of
chance.

CHAP. 129.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That if any person or per-
sons within this state, sliall offer for sale or disposition, any
article or articles, money or goods of any sort, or any chose

or any interest therein, or in any personal or real pro-
perty whatsoever, to be determined by lot, chance, or the
drawing of any lottery, within or without this state; or
shall sell or procure to be sold, or shall furnish, or procure
to be furnished in any manner whatsoever, any claim, share,
portion, policy, order, or interest of any kind whatsoever,
in any such property so offered for sale or disposition, to or
for any other person or persons, such person or persons
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year, in

Penalty for offer-

ing for sale any

articles of money,

goods, &c

vided, that no sale or disposition of any ticket or tickets in
any lottery expressly granted by this state, and approved of
by the lottery commissioners, or proposed by the said com-
missioners on behalf of this state, that shall be made by any
licensed vender of lottery tickets, shall be affected by this
section; Provided also, that the provisions of this act shall
not be deemed applicable to such dispositions of personal
property of small value, as shall be made by raffle or lot,
and which shall not be intended as evasions of the lottery
system.

Proviso

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That if any person or per-
sons shall falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit, or cause
to be made, altered, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid
or assist in the falsely making, altering, forging or coun-
terfeiting, any ticket of any lottery, or other game of
chance, or part or share of any such ticket, or any certifi-
cate, writing, or evidence of any interest in any ticket or
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Penalty for alter-
ing or forging
tickets, &c