Mayor's Court.
--Nothing of special interest was done in the
Mayor's Court on Saturday.
The case of
Morris Kauffman, charged with receiving five hundred dollars' worth of leather, which he knew to have been stolen from
George W. Bluford, was again continued till Wednesday.
Edmond, slave of
A. A. Hutcheson, was charged with breaking into the shoe shop of
Joseph F. Dabney and stealing one pair of boots and a pair of shoes, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars. No testimony was given which could warrant, a conviction, and the accused was therefore discharged.
Prior to vacating his seat, the
Mayor rendered his decision in the cases of
James A. Moore and
J. W. Philpots,
versus the wood measurer of the city, they refusing to comply with an ordinance allowing certain fees for measuring wood and requiring all wood brought here to be measured.
In the case of
Mr. Moore, it will be recollected that the measurer of wood,
Mr. John F. Glazebrook, testified that he ascertained from examining the carts used by him that he had not been selling full cords, and that, when be accosted him about it, that gentleman informed him that he did not pretend to sell his wood by the cord, but by the load, and therefore he disputed the right to have it measured.
Mr. Philpots claimed exemption from the fee on the ground that he did not sell, his wood to dealers, but retailed it out to customers at about one-third less than was asked for it by others.
He had been bringing wood to the city, he said, for a number of years, and always disposed of it at reasonable prices, which he thought was doing good enough to entitle him to be released from the tax for having it measured.
The
Mayor's decision was adverse to the defendants, but he notified his officers not to collect the fines which they had subjected themselves to till after the meeting of the Council to-day, as that body might take some steps with regard to the matter.
