In 1922 a continuous registration of the whole indigenous population was instituted by ordinance of the Governor-General, and the periodic compilation of these records was ordered.

At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.

The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.

In 1977, Falwell supported Anita Bryant's campaign, which was called by its proponents " Save Our Children ", to overturn an ordinance in Dade County, Florida prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and he supported a similar movement in California.

His Declaration against Magicians and Witches ( Omnipotentis Dei, 20 March 1623 ) was the last papal ordinance against witchcraft.

Four days later, Parks was tried on charges of disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance.

" Lutheran church historian Augustus Neander states " The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance ".

An ordinance was passed in 1731 to preserve the woodlands through the reduction in the goat population.

Since the ordinance was not " generally applicable ," the Court ruled that it needed to have a compelling interest, which it failed to have, and so was declared unconstitutional.

On 13 March 1643, in the early stages of the English Civil War, Cosin was expelled from his position by a Parliamentary ordinance from the Earl of Manchester.

** Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: " Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." Smith, Proceedings ( Barbour 1964 )

The Commission eventually decided in favor of a slightly modified version of Nihon-shiki, which was proclaimed to be Japan's official romanization for all purpose by a September 21, 1937 cabinet ordinance and is now known as Kunrei-shiki.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

By an ordinance of Louis Philippe I of France of 13 August 1830, it was decided that the king's children ( and his sister ) would continue to bear the arms of Orléans, that Louis-Philippe's eldest son, as Prince Royal, would bear the title of duc d ' Orléans, that the younger sons would continue to have their existing titles, and that the sister and daughters of the king would only be styled " princesses d ' Orléans ", which meant the Orléans royalty did not take the name " of France ".

Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance.

With the support of most of Montgomery's 50, 000 African Americans, the boycott lasted for 381 days until the local ordinance segregating African-Americans and whites on public buses was lifted.

It was once reserved for imminent enemy attack, but is today sometimes used to warn of severe weather, tsunamis, or even fire calls, depending on local ordinance.

In 1832, states ' rights theory was put to the test in the Nullification Crisis, after South Carolina passed an ordinance that nullified federal tariffs.

Some believe this was a participation in the ordinance of the sacrament.

On 5 May 1812 an ordinance was passed to the effect that the town formerly called Stabroek, with districts extending from La Penitence to the bridges in Kingston and entering upon the road to the military camps, shall be called Georgetown.

The Board of Police was abolished when an ordinance was passed to establish a Mayor and Town Council.

The championship of Khoikhoi grievances by the missionaries caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of the colonists, whose conservative views temporarily prevailed, for in 1812, an ordinance was issued which gave magistrates the power to bind Khoikhoi children as apprentices under conditions little different from those of slavery.

Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances ' failures to grandfather land owned prior to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that the motive for the Louisville ordinance, race, was an insufficient purpose to make the prohibition constitutional.

One such minimum distance ordinance in Seattle was overturned by public referendum in November 2006.

The groups won and the city ordinance was overturned ; however Orlando appealed to the 11th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and won.

In Nectow, the Court overturned a zoning ordinance for violating the 14th Amendment due process clause.

The Cabochiens, who were unable to flee, were executed and the ordinance was overturned on September 5, 1413.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

" The Christian ministry is not derived from the people but from the pastors ; a scriptural ordinance provides for this ministry being renewed by the ordination of a presbyter by presbyters ; this ordinance originates with the apostles, who were themselves presbyters, and through them it goes back to Christ as its source .".

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

Downtown Kansas City itself is established by city Local ordinance | ordinance to stretch from the Missouri River south to 31st Street ( beyond the bottom of this map ), and from State Line Rd.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

Norman Doe notes that St. Germain's view " is essentially Thomist ," quoting Thomas Aquinas's definition of law as " an ordinance of reason made for the common good by him who has charge of the community, and promulgated.

" () commands, in reference to God's sparing of the firstborn from the Tenth Plague: And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the lord ; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Stuyvesant then made an ordinance, punishable by fine and imprisonment, against anyone found guilty of harboring Quakers.

In 1900, Montgomery had passed a city ordinance ( essentially only whites could vote ) to segregate bus passengers by race.

Participants segregate by gender to separate rooms to conduct this ritual, although some congregations allow married couples to perform the ordinance on each other and families are often encouraged to participate together.

* June 7 – After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her anti-gay " Save Our Children " crusade, Miami-Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's " gay rights " ordinance.

* November 28 – Acting on the ordinance passed by the Jackson government, the Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th Confederate state.

Although the United States Supreme Court declared the ordinance unconstitutional in the next year, the ordinance remained on the books.

In Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah,, the Supreme Court ruled Hialeah had passed an ordinance banning ritual slaughter, a practice central to the Santería religion, while providing exceptions for some practices such as the kosher slaughter.

In 1886, when a Chinese laundry owner challenged the constitutionality of a San Francisco ordinance clearly designed to drive Chinese laundries out of business, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and in doing so, laid the theoretical foundation for modern equal protection constitutional law.

Williams, joined other members of his faith and appealed similar convictions occurring across the state to the Arkansas Supreme Court in Berry v. City of Hope challenging the city ordinance as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, the Court agreed and held the ordinances unconstitutional.

The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a ruling in 1942 upholding a Teaneck ordinance that had banned pinball machines on the grounds that they were gambling devices rather than a form of amusement.

The Supreme Court in the 1977 case of Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro ruled that the ordinance violated the First Amendment protections for commercial speech.

The case made it to the United States Supreme Court in C & A Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown, New York, in which the ordinance was held unconstitutional.

On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling, leading to a city ordinance that allowed black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they wanted.

The Town of Clarkstown ’ s ordinance was designed and written right in the teeth of the long line of Supreme Court cases which had historically struck down local processing requirements.

The trial court granted the motion, but the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed, rejecting petitioner's overbreadth claim because, as the Minnesota Court had construed the Ordinance in prior cases, the phrase " arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others " limited the reach of the ordinance to conduct that amounted to fighting words under the Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire decision.

In construing the ordinance, the Court recognized that it was bound by the construction given by the Minnesota Supreme Court.

In the 1982 case Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., the U. S. Supreme Court found a municipal ordinance requiring licensing for paraphernalia sales to have sufficiently distinguished marketing for illegal use to be constitutional.

Finally, in Renton v. Playtime Theaters, Inc., the Supreme Court had upheld a zoning ordinance that kept adult movie theaters out of residential neighborhoods.

However, a local city ordinance prohibiting the establishment of motels, lodging houses and other similar establishments, was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

" The latter ordinance was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, but continued to be enforced for several years after that decision.

Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U. S. 520 ( 1993 ), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance passed in Hialeah, Florida, forbidding the " unnecessar " killing of " an animal in a public or private ritual or ceremony not for the primary purpose of food consumption ", was unconstitutional.

Applying rational basis review the U. S. Supreme Court struck down the ordinance as applied to CLC.

This case was an appeal to the Supreme Court of Hawai ' i which stemmed from a Honolulu city and county ordinance.

In response to the US Supreme Court's opinion in the hate speech case of R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul ( 1992 ), in which the Court struck down an anti-bias ordinance as applied to a teenager who had burned a cross, Mari Matsuda and Charles Lawrence argued that the Court had paid insufficient attention to the history of racist speech and the actual injury produced by such speech.

Prior to the trial of this case, the California Supreme Court had already deemed invalid a city ordinance that would make unlawful the public display of a red flag, emblem, etc.

On June 14, 1879 United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field, sitting in the local federal court — despite much criticism from the general public — found in favor of the plaintiff ; his decision held that it was not within the powers of the Board of Supervisors to set such a discriminatory law and that the ordinance was, in fact, unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court has ruled that an ordinance that totally bans door to door selling is unconstitutional, thus rendering the ordinances void of any any legal value.