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The Court having again attended to-day, pursuant to their adjournment on Wednesday last, to further consider the requisition of the Governor for slaves from this county to labor on the fortifications and other works necessary for the public defence, made pursuant to law, and six of the Justices being present, doth order that the following slaveholders, hirers and public hospitals produce to the Sheriff of this county, at the Court-house thereof, on Monday, the 30th day of the present month (January), by 12 o'clock M. of that day, the number of Slaves, between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five years, annexed to their names in the subjoined list, to labor as above indicated; on which day the Court will proceed finally to dispose of the whole matter, and to direct the Sheriff to take into possession the slaves of all such holders, hirers and hospitals, who, on that day, are not excused or otherwise exempted, and ordered the same to be published in the Richmond Dispatch until that day.
ly with the requirements of the ordinance relative to reporting the names of parties to whom their servants have been hired; after which, the court adjourned. Before Judge Halyburton, of the Confederate States District Court, several cases of habeas corpus, involving discharges from the military service, were called, but a further continuance being asked for by counsel, they were postponed. Nothing was done in Judge Lyons's Court, the docket having been gotten through with for the January term several days since. In the Richmond Circuit Court, Judge Meredith, in the matter of petitions for writs of Habeas corpus of L. H. Walke, Ed. M. Morgan, James Roane and James Pearce, praying to be relieved from service in Colonel Danforth's regiment, second-class militia, under joint resolution of the Legislature, the parties were thus brought into court, and, upon a hearing, bailed until the 4th of February next to await the decision of the Court of Appeals--R. T. Daniel for affia