1771.2
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Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Bans, HolidaysBans, Holidays |
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Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | Juvenile, YouthJuvenile, Youth |
Holiday | Christmas |
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"WHEREAS as iit often happens that many 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, may be ordered to remove to any place where there shall be no such danger."
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Sources | "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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