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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], Hustings Court. (search)
Hustings Court. --The Hustings Court commenced its December term yesterday, the following Justices appearing on the bench: Recorder L. T. Chandler, and Alderman R. D. Sanxay, C. T. Wortham, R. J. Christian, W. W. Timberlake, J. M. Higgins, J. B. Royster and James McCarthy. The Court ordered that a writ of election be issued for Commonwealth's Attorney, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Littleton Tazewell, Esq., on Thursday, the 21st instant; the same commissioners to serve as at the last election, except that William S. Wood is appointed in the place of J. B. Royster, who has been elected a magistrate. The remainder of the session was mostly devoted to hearing applications for licenses to sell liquor.