Overheid en zondagsviering

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A. W. Sijthoff, 1899 - 708 pages
 

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Page 403 - ... an act made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled ' An Act for exempting their Majesties...
Page 392 - ... as good, valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if the same had been...
Page 381 - ... that, under pretence of taking away abuses, there hath been a general forbidding, not only of ordinary meetings, but of the feasts of the dedication of the churches, commonly called Wakes...
Page 378 - God: prohibiting in like sort the said recreations to any that, though conform in religion, are not present in the church at the service of God, before their going to the said recreations. Our pleasure likewise is, that they to whom it belongeth in office, shall present and sharply punish all such, as in abuse of this our liberty, will use these exercises before the end of all divine services for that day.
Page 381 - Justices of Assize in their several circuits to see that no man do trouble or molest any of our loyal and dutiful people, in or for their lawful recreations...
Page 377 - Papists and Puritans, have maliciously traduced and calumniated those our just and honourable proceedings : and therefore, lest our reputation might upon the one side (though innocently) have some aspersion laid upon it, and that upon the other part our good people in that country be misled by the mistaking and misinterpretation of our meaning, we have therefore thought good hereby to clear and make our pleasure to be manifested to all our good people in those parts. It is true that at our first...
Page 450 - All labor on Sunday is prohibited, excepting the works of necessity and charity. In works of necessity Or charity is included whatever is needful during the day for the good order, health or comfort of the community.
Page 479 - En cas de troubles dont un culte quelconque serait l'occasion ou le motif, ceux qui les exciteraient par des prédications fanatiques ou par des insinuations contre-révolutionnaires, ceux qui les provoqueraient par des violences injustes et gratuites, seront également punis selon la rigueur des lois.
Page 453 - Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws or parts of laws contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect and be in full force ninety days after its promulgation.
Page 447 - No railroad company shall run any train on any road operated by it within this State, between sunrise and sunset on Sunday, except from necessity or mercy ; provided, that...

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