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SUNDAY OBSERVANCE ACT TOWN COUNCILLOR FINED (United Press Association—By Eiectrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON. 11th January. Councillor Leonard Cox, a member of the Manchester Watch committee, was summoned under the Sunday Observance Act of 1677 for failing to attend a place of worship. The Games and Freedom League ridiculed the Act. Cox admitted that he did not attend a place of worship on Sunday; this was not because he was not religious but because he refused to be forced to go to church, lie urged that the law was bad, and (hat a quarter of a million citizens of Manchester broke it in a similar way. The magistrate said the court had to administer the law, so he admonished Cox, but refused to bind him over on condition he attended church. CONCERT ABANDONED In view of the recent judgment regarding Sunday entertainments, the Northampton Watch committee declined to sanction or prohibit a joint Sunday production of “The Messiah” by musical and orchestral societies, for which two thousand tickets were sold. The concert was therefore abandoned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 13 January 1931, Page 5
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