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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], 100 dollars reward. (search)
Important Legal case. --A very important case came before the Mayor yesterday, which will probably get to the Court of Appeals for final decision. A free negress named Martha Hobson, for having visited Massachusetts and returned to Virginia, in violation of the law, was ordered by the Mayor to give bond in $500 to leave the Commonwealth within ten days, never to return.--From this decision appeal was taken to the Hustings Court, where the Mayor's decision was substantially sustained the Court merely reducing the amount of the bond to $100. The prisoner, when she want to Massachusetts, was given a passport by General Winder, and, returning on a flag of truce boat, was received by Commissioner Ould. Since the decision of the Hustings Court prisoner's husband has made efforts to get a passport for her, she consenting to return to the North, where her children are at school, but has been refused by the authorities.--To obey the orders of the Court, therefore, she must run the