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{{Chronology Entry
|Headline=Salem Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket
|Year=1762
|Year=1762
|Year Number=2
|Headline=Salem MA Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Game=Cricket
|Country=US
|Text=<p>". . . no Person shall use the Exercise of playing or kicking of Foot-ball, or the Exercise of Bat-and-Ball, or Cricket, within the Body of the Town, under a Penalty of One Shilling and Six Pence."</p>
|State=MA
<p>By-Laws and Orders of the town of Salem, July 26, 1762, as printed in the <i>Essex Gazette</i>, December 6 to 13, 1768, page 81: posted to 19CBB on July 30, 2007 by Richard Hershberger.<b> </b> The town is Salem MA.</p>
|City=Salem
|Game=Cricket, Bat-and-Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>". . . no Person shall use the Exercise of playing or Kicking of Foot-ball, or the Exercise of Bat-and-Ball, or Cricket . . .&nbsp; within the Body of this Town, under a Penalty of One Shilling and Six Pence."</p>
<p>By-Laws and Orders of the town of Salem MA, July 26, 1762.</p>
|Sources=<p><em>Essex Gazette</em>, December 6 to 13, 1768, page 81.</p>
|Comment=<p>Brian Turner, 8/31/2014, notes that the wording of this order could by taken to mean that the game itself was seen as a form of cricket, and was not a distinct game.&nbsp;</p>
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Submission Note=Posted to 19CBB on July 30, 2007
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=2
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Salem MA Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket

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City/State/Country: Salem, MA, US
Game Cricket, Bat-and-Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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". . . no Person shall use the Exercise of playing or Kicking of Foot-ball, or the Exercise of Bat-and-Ball, or Cricket . . .  within the Body of this Town, under a Penalty of One Shilling and Six Pence."

By-Laws and Orders of the town of Salem MA, July 26, 1762.

Sources

Essex Gazette, December 6 to 13, 1768, page 81.

Comment

Brian Turner, 8/31/2014, notes that the wording of this order could by taken to mean that the game itself was seen as a form of cricket, and was not a distinct game. 

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Submission Note Posted to 19CBB on July 30, 2007



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