Cubic Air Ordinance, 1870: "required each adult to have at least 500 cubic feet of living space." (Mccunn, pg. 77.) Since most building inhabited by Chinese were overcrowded; many Chinese were arrested for violating the law. At the end, the jails became so crowed that the ordinance was repealed.

Queue Ordinance, 1873: "required the sheriff to cut the hair of every prisoner sentenced to jail, within one inch of the prisoner's scalp." (Hoobler, 63.) In China, under Manchu law, all Chinese men were required to have queues, so without them immigrants would not be able to return home (the penalty was death), and it was very humiliating for Chinese to have their queues cut off.

Laundry Ordinance, 1879: "ruled that any one who carried laundry without using wagons drawn by horses would have to pay a high license fee." (Mccunn, 77.) Obviously, this law was aimed at the Chinese laundries, which used men carrying poles to deliver the laundry.