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|Year=1771
|Year Number=2
|Headline=Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets
|Headline=Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets
|Year=1771
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Holidays,Bans
|Tags=Bans, Holidays,  
|Text=<p>"[M]any disorders are occasioned within the town of Portsmouth . . . by boys and fellows playing with balls in the public street: . . . [when] there is danger of breaking the windows of any building, public or private, [they] may be ordered to remove to any place where there shall be no such danger."</p>
|Text=<p>"[M]any disorders are occasioned within the town of Portsmouth . . . by boys and fellows playing with balls in the public street: . . . [when] there is danger of breaking the windows of any building, public or private, [they] may be ordered to remove to any place where there shall be no such danger."</p>
<p>"An Act to prevent and punish Disorders usually committed on the twenty-fifth Day of December . . . ," 23 December 1771, <u>New Hampshire</u> <u>(Colony) Temporary Laws, 1773</u> (Portsmouth, NH), page 53. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 25.</p>
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|Sources=<p>"An Act to prevent and punish Disorders usually committed on the twenty-fifth Day of December . . . ," 23 December 1771,&nbsp;<span>New Hampshire</span>&nbsp;<span>(Colony) Temporary Laws, 1773</span>&nbsp;(Portsmouth, NH), page 53. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It,</span>&nbsp;ref # 25.</p>
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|Year Number=2
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Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets

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"[M]any disorders are occasioned within the town of Portsmouth . . . by boys and fellows playing with balls in the public street: . . . [when] there is danger of breaking the windows of any building, public or private, [they] may be ordered to remove to any place where there shall be no such danger."

 

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"An Act to prevent and punish Disorders usually committed on the twenty-fifth Day of December . . . ," 23 December 1771, New Hampshire (Colony) Temporary Laws, 1773 (Portsmouth, NH), page 53. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, ref # 25.

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