The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15
CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS.
Full List of the Enactments so
Often Referred to,

The term ''Blue Laws is applied tc
such as relate to the private con.
sciences of individuals. All countries
formerly had such statutes, and the
thirteen colonies were no exception
before the Revolution. The code oil
Connecticut is often spoken of in this
respect. Those most noted were Of
the colony of New Haven, which was
united with the Connecticut colony in
1855. Here is a full copy of the New
Haven list, often called the "Connec-
ticut Blue Laws";-
The Governor and magistrates, con-
vened in general assembly, are the
supreme power under God of this in
dependent dominion.
Conspiracy against the dominion
shall be punished with death.
Whosoeyer says there is a power
and jurisdiction above and WI this
dominion shall suffer death and the
loss of his property.
Whosoever attempts to change or
overturn this dominion shall suffer
death.
vote, unless he be converted and a
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the churches allowed in this domin-
ion.
Each freeman shall swear by the
blessed God to bear true allegiance to
this dominion, and that Jesus is the.
only king.
No Quaker or dissenter from the
established worship of this dominion
shall be allowed to give a vote for the
n1oafion IF ,,o oictro{ion ar onv OfHonr
No food or lodging shall be offered
a Quaker, Adamite or other hereto.
Ii any person shall turn Quaker he
shall be banished and not. suffered to
return on paid of death.
No Quaker priest shall abide in this
dominion; he shall be banished, and
suffer death on return.
Priests may be seized by any one
without a warrant.
No one shall run on the Sabbath
day, or valid in his garden, @" else
where, except reyerently to and from
meeting.
No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds. sweep house, cut hair or
shave on the Sabbath day.
Nowoman shall kiss her children on
the Sabbath day or fast days.
The Sabbath shall begin at sunset
on Saturday.
To pick an ear of corn growing on a
neighbours garden shall be deemed
theft.
A person accused of trespass in the
night shall be judged guilty until he
clear himself by his oath.
No one shall buy or sell land with
out permission of the seleetmen.
When it appears that an accused
person has confederates, and refuses
to discover them, he may be racked.
A drunkard shall have a master APP
pointed by the selectmen, who are to
debar him the liberty of buying and
selling.
Whoever publishes a lie to the pre-
JUDGE of his neighbor shall be put in
the stocks or receive ten stripes.
No minister shall keep a school.
Men stealers shall suffer death
Whosoever wears clothes trimmed
with gold, silver or bone lace above
two shillings per yard, shall be pre-
sented by the grand jurors, and the
selectmen shall tax the offender e300
on his estate.
A debtor in prison, swearing he has
no estate, shall be laid out and sold,
to make satisfaction.
Whosoever brings cards or dice into
this dominion shah pay a fine of G5.
No one shall read the
prayer book, keep Christmas, or set
days, or play on any instrument ex-
eept the drum or jews harp.
No gospel minister shall join people
in marriage. The magistrate only
shall join them in marriage, as they
do it with less scandal to Christ's
church.
When parents refuse their children
convenient marriage, the magistrate
shall determine the point.
The selectmen, on finding the chill
dren ignorant, may take them away
from their parents, and put them in
better hands at the expense of their
parents.
A man who strikes his wife shall
pay a fine of $40.
A woman who strikes her husband
shall be punished as the court directs.
A wife shall be deemed good evil
denee against her husband.
No man shall court a maid in per-
son or by letter without first obtain
ing consent of her parents.
Married persons must live to gether
or be imprisoned in Jail.
Every mail shall have his hair cut
round according to a cap.-Queaies
Magazine.
Improving Our Talents.
/ heard a lady OF wealth say in ref
erence to her daughters education,
that she proposed to have her we'll
educated and then see if she had any
special talent and have that cultivat-
ed; she also intended to have her
taught some useful art hat would
serve her in ease she should ever have
to make her own living.
thought it was a very sensible
woman who could feel and season in
this way. If our girls and boys were
educated with an eye to their future
success in life, how much more sue
cessful the lives of many of them
would be. The same lady lwho by the
way was taking her daughter to New
York to school that she might have
every advantage said:-sOne thing