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§61-10-18 Conducting bucket shop; penalty.

§61-10-18. Conducting bucket shop; penalty.
If any person shall carry on in this state what is commonly known as a bucket shop, or act as agent for any person, firm or corporation carrying on such business, or engage in transactions for the purchase or sale for others of grain, provisions, stocks, securities, merchandise or other property wherein the parties thereto or the broker intend that such transaction shall be settled according to the public market quotations on any board of trade or exchange, or intend that such transaction may be deemed terminated when such public market quotations shall reach a certain figure, or intend that such property shall be resold before or at the time fixed in such transaction for the delivery of such property and that the difference between the contract price and the market price thereof shall be paid or received without the prior receipt or delivery of such property under the former sale, he shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years.

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