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BILL NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY. Albany. V V . March 2U. A hearing was given tlii- afternoon before Ihe Assembly Codes Committee mi the bill Introduced hi Assemblyman Knight, whieh i- designed to prohii.it persons who. with nr without exchange of money or property, from participating In poolselllng, with or without writing, or in any oilier kind of gambling, or one who. a- a bettor or the taker of a bet, directly m- Indirectly, records a bet or wager. The promoten of this legislation have endeavored without success to have Cms hill introduced in the Senate. In view of lln-fact ihai the Iuris have already decided that oral heiiing i- not Illegal, the members of the Legislature are not inclined te take the hill at all seriously.
