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1274	FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 429. 1899.
	may be drawn in such lottery, knowing the same to be false or fictitious, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.
When defendant to prove existence of lottery.	Sec. 139. That upon the trial of an indictment for any of the crimes deiined in the section last preceding, any ticket or share of a ticket, or any writing, token, or other device therein mentioned which the defendant shall have made, sold, or offered for sale, or shall have had in his possession with intent to sell, or for which he shall have received any money or other valuable thing, shall be deemed to be false, spurious, or fictitious, unless such defendant shall prove the same to be true and genuine and to have been duly issued by authority of law, and that such lottery was at the time existing and undrawn, and that such ticket or share thereof, or writing, token, or other device was issued by lawful authority and binding upon the person who issued the same.
Second conviction.	Sec. 140. That if any person, having been convicted of a crime defined in sections one hundred and thirty-five and one hundred and thirty-six, shall afterwards be convicted of the same or any other crime therein defined, such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years.
Profanation of Sunday Proviso. Drug stores, etc., excepted.	Sec. 141. That if any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, ball alley, billiard room, or tippling house, for purpose of labor or traffic, or any place of amusement, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday or the Lord’s day, such person, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than live nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That the above provision shall not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery-stable keepers, barbers, butchers, and bakers, and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense, which shall be treated as questions of fact for the jury to determine, when the offense is tried by jury.
Selling liquor or firearms to Indians.	Sec. 142. That if any person shall, without the authority of the United States, or some authorized officer thereof, sell, barter, or give to any Indian or half-breed who lives and associates with Indians any firearms or ammunition therefor whatever, or any spirituous, malt, or vinous liquor, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than two months nor more than six months, or by fine not less than one nor more than five hundred dollars. That the term “ Indian " in this Act shall be so construed as to include the aboriginal races inhabiting Alaska when annexed to the United States, and their descendants of the whole or half blood. Section nineteen hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and all that part of section fourteen of “An Act providing a civil government for Alaska,” approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eightyfour, after the word "provided," is hereby repealed.
Suffering vicious animals to run at large.	Sec. 143. That if anyperson, being the owner or having the control of any dangerous or vicious animal, knowing such animal to be dangerous or vicious, shall willfully or negligently permit or suffer the same to be at large in any neighborhood or on any public highway, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
Taking female under sixteen years of age without consent of her parents.	Sec. 144. That if any person shall for purposes of prostitution or marriage take away any female under the age of sixteen years from her father, mother, guardian, or other person having legal charge of her person, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than two years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
Disposing of opium other than to druggists.	Sec. 145. That it shall be unlawful to sell or give away opium, or any preparation of which opium is the principal medicinal agent, to any person except druggists and practicing physicians, except on the pre-