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British colonial law makes "nightwalking" illegal in the colonies.
Date: 1699
Sex work
Laws/legislation/policy
Systems of policing
While sex work is not specifically named until much later, codes against "nightwalking" are used to refer to a range of "immoral" activities, including sex work.
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