The
Queue Ordinance
San Francisco Evening Bulletin June 2, 1873
San Francisco Evening Bulletin June 2, 1873
nThe Board of Supervisors have passed
to print an ordinance requiring the cropping of the
hair of every person who is serving a term in the jail under a
criminal conviction. The
ordinance, while it nominally makes no discrimination as to race or
condition, is aimed specially at the Chinese. … The Chinese who offend against the
[lodging house] ordinance refuse to pay the fine, but go to
jail and board it out.