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Crimes Against Religion. 1. Servile labor.

2. Public sports.

3. Trades, manufactures and mechanical employments.

4. Public traffic.

5. Serving process.

§ 6841. Servile labor prohibited. All manner of servile labor on the first day of the week is prohibited, excepting works of necessity or charity.

§ 6842. Defense, other day observed. It is a sufficient defense in proceedings for servile labor on the first day of the week, to show that the accused uniformly keeps another day of the week as holy time, and does not labor upon that day, and that the labor complained of was done in such manner as not to interrupt or disturb other persons in observing the first day of the week as holy time.

§ 6843. Prohibited sports enumerated. All shooting, sporting, horse racing, gaming or other public sports, upon the first day of the week, are prohibited.

§ 6844. Trades and employments prohibited. All trades, manufactures and mechanical employments, upon the first day of the week, are prohibited.

§ 6845. Public trafic prohibited. All manner of public selling or offering or exposing for sale publicly, of any commodities upon the first day of the week, is prohibited, except that meats, milk and fish may be sold at any time before nine o'clock in the morning, and except that food may be sold to be eaten upon the premises where sold, and drugs and medicines and surgical appliances may be sold at any time of the day.

§ 6846. Serving process prohibited. All service of legal process of any description whatever, upon the first day of the week, is prohibited, except in cases of breach of the peace or apprehended breach of the peace, or when sued out for the apprehension of a person charged with crime, or except when such service shall be specially authorized by law.

§ 6847. Sabbath breaking, how punished. Every person guilty of Sabbath breaking is punishable by a fine of one dollar for each offense.

'''§ 6848. Fines, how collected. No exemption.''' The fines prescribed in this chapter for profane swearing and for Sabbath breaking, may be collected in the manner prescribed by law, for the collection of debts; but no property shall be exempt from execution which has been taken to satisfy any such fines and costs.

§ 6849. Maliciously serving process. Whoever maliciously procures any process in a civil action to be served on Saturday upon any person who keeps Saturday as holy time, and does not labor on that day. or serves upon him any process returnable on that day, or maliciously procures any civil action to which such person is a party to be adjourned to that day for trial, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6850. Compelling form of belief. Any willful attempt, by means of threats or violence, to compel any person to adopt, practice or profess any particular form of religious belief, is a misdemeanor.

§ 6851. Preventing religious act. Every person who willfully prevents, by threats or violence, another person from performing any lawful act enjoined upon or recommended to such person by the religion which he professes, is guilty of a misdemeanor.