Ordenanza 53 para prohibir los juegos de suerte y azar

Abstract

The image contains a news about the Ordinance 53 by means of which the games of luck and chance are prohibited, ordered by the Provincial Chamber of Bogotá, in this it is stipulated the prohibition of this type of games, including the game of roosters, defining that those persons who act in quality of violator, It is also mentioned that the current auctioneer must be compensated with twenty reals for each party, these being the damages caused by the prohibition of the game of roosters, while the current auction is concluded. Finally it is stipulated that the game of billiards and those that are not of luck and chance will be allowed and considered public entertainment and can be performed on holidays until ten o'clock at night and on working days from six in the afternoon until ten o'clock at night, in addition the results of non-compliance with this ordinance are stipulated with a fine of ten to four hundred reais, with one to three days in prison or work in public works from one to twenty days.

News published in El Constitucional Bogotá, No.247, October 30, 1848.