CHAPTER XXXV.

 

DISTURBING RELIGIOUS WORSHI P—VIOLATING THE

SABBATH.

 

CONTENTS.

 

SECTION 1.   Disturbing religious worship—Punishment.

2.   Violating the Sabbath—Punishment.

3.   Entertaining persons not strangers on tile Lord’s Day.

4.   Civil process executed on the Lords Day void.

5.   Public officers to inform of offenses.

6.   The Lords Day defined.

 

1. Whoever willfully interrupts or disturbs any religious assembly or assembly for religious worship, whether such offender commit such offense within or without the place of assembly, and whether such offense be committed on the Lord’s day or at any other the, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor not more than thirty days, or by fine not exceeding fifteen dollars, in the discretion of the court.

 

2. The Lord’s day is taboo: All worldly business, amusements and recreation are forbidden on that day; and whoever shall keep open his shop, store, warehouse, or workshop, or shall do any manner of labor, business or work except only works of necessity and charity, or be present at any dancing, public amusement, show or entertainment, or take part in any game, sport or play on the Lord’s day, shall be punished by fine net exceeding ten dollars.

 

3. Whoever, being a hotel, inn, victualling house, bowling alley or billiard table keeper, or a retailer of spirituous liquors or other person keeping a house of public entertainment, who shall entertain any persons, net being travelers, strangers or lodgers, in his house on the Lord’s day, or shall suffer any person on said day to abide or remain in his house or in any building or place appertaining thereto, drinking or spending their time in games, idly or at play, or in doing any secular business, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each person so entertained, or suffered to abide or remain; and every person so abiding or drinking shall be punished by a fine net exceeding five dollars.

 

4.   No person shall serve or execute any civil process on the Lord’s day; and any such service or execution shall be void.

 

5.   All marshals, sheriffs, constables and ether public officers, shall inquire into, and inform of all offenses in violation of the provisions of this chapter and shall cause the same to be carried into effect.

 

6.  The Lord’s day, within the meaning of the provisions of this chapter, is the first day of the week, and includes the time between the midnight preceding and the midnight following said day.