“Your committee have considered His Worship the Mayor’s Message asking for immediate consideration of the matter of speaking or preaching in the public parks and squares of the City on Sundays, during the warm weather, together with a quantity of correspondence relating thereto, and in view of the disgraceful scenes of last year and the great annoyance that has been occasioned citizens visiting the parks on Sundays in the past, your committee would strongly recommend that all preaching, speaking or discussing in any manner whatsoever, in the public parks and squares of the City on Sundays, be hereafter strictly prohibited, and that the Police Department be asked to see that this rule is strictly adhered to.”
J.C. Swait, chairman
March 27, 1889
(City Council Appendix, 1889, 501)
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