The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-10-17
THE coanECTIcUr BLUE LAWS.

The following extract from the laws ordain.
ed by the people of New Haven, previous to
their incorporation with the Saybrook and
Hartford cofoniess afford an idea Of the strange
character of their prohibitions. As the sub
STANCE only Is given in the transcription, the
language is pecessarily modernized:
No Quaker CT disseateF from the established
give ahyote for the election Of magistrates or
any officer. .t;s
No food or lodging shall beoffsred to 1 Qua.
ker, Adamite OF. hereto. ~~e
IF any man tHfhs Quaker, he shall be ban
ished, and not suffered to return on pain of
death. "a,
No Priest shall abide in the dominion; he
shall be banished, and suffer death on his re-
turn. Priests may be seized by any one with
oit warrant. 60
No man to cross river but with an author
ized ferryman.
No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or
walk in his garden or elsewhere except reyer-
entity to and from meeting.
No one shall travel, cook yictuals, make
beds, sweep house, cut hair OF shave on the
Sabbath day.
No woman shall kiss her child on the Sab
bath or fasting day.
The Sabbath shall begin at SUNSET on Satur-
To pick an ear Of corn in q neighbor's gar
den shall be deemed theft.
A person accused of trespass in the night
shall be Judged guilty, unless he clear him
self by oath. ...r.....-. s,.t
When it appears that an accused has con-
fedsrates, and he refuses to discover them, he
may be racked. So. 80 =.
No person shall buy or sell lands without
the permission of the selectmep. S
A drunkard shall have master appointed
by the selectmen, who are to debar him The
liberty of buying and selling.
Whoever publishes q lie to the prejudice Of
his neighbor shall sit in the stocks and be
whipped ff. ~ stripes. -..-.r
No Minister shall keep school.
Men stealers shall suffer death.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold
| or bone lace, above two shillings by the yard
shall be presented by the grand jurors, and the
! selectmen shall tax the offender at e300 es
| tate, =.
A debtor in prison, swearing he has no es
tate, shall be let out and sold to make salts
| faction. -. j., ti.,... ., -.
Whoever sets, fire in IN the hlt woods, and burn.
house, shall suffer death; and persons ,sus
pected of this crime shall be imprisoned with.
out benefit of bail. - ...s,t....
| !. Whoever brings cards or dice into this do
LnlulOu sual pay uHe Vi sltA.1 81 ~
No one shall read common prayer, keep
Christmas or saint days, make nince pies
play cards or play on any instrument of music
except the drum, trumpet and jewsharp.
>. No gospel minister shall join people in mar
riage; the magistrates only shall. join In .inars
riage, as they only may do it with less scandal
| to Christ's Church. a a.rCF ssg 1
When parents refuse their children conye.
nient marriages, the magistrates shall deter.
| mine the point. t. -
The selectmen, on finding children ignorant
may take them away from their parents, and
put them into better hands, at the expense oi
their psrents. y
A man that strikes his wife shall be pun.
! ished as the court direct. sr,..'
A wife shall be deemed good evidence
against her husband, NJ,
Married persoHs must live together, or be
| imprisoned. ~ +
No man shall court maid in person, or by
letter., without first obtaining the consent Of
her parents; e5 penalty for the first offence
e1O for the secondhand for the third, i'm
prisonment during the pleasure of the court
! Every male shall have his hair cut acco:d
ing to cap. osA, iet s-fs ea1A
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