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LIGHT ON NEW YORK LAW. Several readers ask whether the new Agnew-Perklaa law prohibits "oral betting" and "oral bookmaking" in so many words. The new statute, rend literally, provides that "a Bf IBBB who makes book with or without writing" is guilty of a misdemeanor. The word "oral" does not appear iu the new law. In the oriuinal bill the Bbjraae "makes book orally or otherwise" was changed by the Senate Codes Committee to "makes book with or without writing" and In that form the bill was passed by both branches of the Legislature and was signed by Governor Hughes. According to leading attorneys who have made a study of the law "oral bettiaf " Is not a crime. — New York Sun.
