SMOKING.
The earliest instance known of penalising smoking in the streets, says "Health," is in the court 'books of the Mayor of Methwold, in Norfolk. Ther e \s the following entry on the record of the Court held on October' 14, 1695:— "We agree that any person that is taken smoaking tobacoa in the street shall foifitt one ehillinge for every time so taken, and it shall be lawful for the petty constables to distrain© for the same, for to be putt to the uses above said (i.e., to thel use of the town). We present Nicholas Barber for 6moaking in the street, and doo amerce him one shilling?." The. same rule was repeated at courts held, in the years 1696 and 1699, but no subsequent fine is mentioned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 2
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129SMOKING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7978, 6 April 1904, Page 2
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