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Show KILL8 RACE TRACK BETTING. New Laws Passed by New Yorkers After Long Struggle. Albany, N. Y. Aftor n great struggle, strug-gle, tho famous Agnow-IIart antl-rnco track gambling bills aro now lnws of tho state of Now York. Tho bills In no wny affect, so far as their faco provision go, tho stato facing commissions commis-sions In particular or horse racing In general. Thoy rclato solely to thw penalties for gambling, pool selling and bookmnklng, which, as before, nro declared by tho law to bo "a public pub-lic nuisance" Chapter 50G amends tho racing law by repealing that provision pro-vision under which all oxcluslvo penalty pen-alty of simply recovering at civil suit tho amount wagored was Incurred, which wns applied to gambling within with-in a rnco track inclosuro, thus exempting ex-empting such gambling from tho penalties pen-alties operatlvo slsowhero in tho stato, and it Is also provided that thlB general gen-eral pcnnlty shall- bo- "Imprisonment In tho county Jail or penitentiary for a period of not moro than one year," without alternative of n fine Chapter CO" amends the pcnnl codo in like manner and, In addition, changes tho grndo of tho crlmo from that of felony, which nny gambling was until today, to that of a mlsdcmennor, thus bringing bring-ing tho offense within tho Jurisdiction of tho minor criminal courts. |