The Charters And General Laws Of The Colony And Province Of Massachusetts Bay 190 (1814)
Abstract
Colony Laws. § 4: Be it also enacted by the authority of this court, that no masters of ships, or seamen, having their vessels riding within any of our harbors in this jurisdiction, shall presume to drink healths, or suffer any healths to be drunk within their vessels by day or night, or to shoot off any gun after the daylight is past, or on the sabbath day, on penalty for every health twenty shillings, and for every gun so shot twenty shillings.
Summary
The law prohibited shipmasters and sailors from drinking healths (toasts) aboard vessels and from firing guns after daylight or on the Sabbath, imposing a twenty-shilling fine for each violation.
Law Text
Sect. 4. Be it also enacted by the authority of this court, that no masters of ships, or seamen, having their vessels riding within any of our harbors in this jurisdiction, shall presume to drink healths, or suffer any healths to be drunk within their vessels by day or night, or to shoot off any gun after the daylight is past, or on the sabbath day, on penalty for every health twenty shillings, and for every gun so shot twenty shillings.
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