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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
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Text

". . . 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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