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Yet next day more mobs formed, and Negroes continued to slip inside stores, rush out with merchandise. Mayor James Tate invoked an 1850 law to ban everyone not on a valid, pressing errand from the streets in a 125-block area. Some 300 state troopers also stood by. Some semblance of order was restored, but officials were prepared for more violence at any moment.