Hustings Court, yesterday.
--The
Court met at 11 o'clock. Present--
Messrs. R. D. Sanxay, (presiding,)
James Bray,
N. C. Lipscombe,
William W. Timberlake,
George E. Sadler,
Charles E. Anderson, and
E. A. J. Clopton.
R. T. Daniel,
Esq., presented the proceedings had by the members of the city bar, at a meeting held on the 4th ult., on the occasion of the death of one of their number--
Captain James K. Lee.
The proceedings have appeared in our columns.
The
Court unanimously ordered the said proceedings to be entered of record as a tribute of respect to the deceased.
(Present--
Messrs. Regnault and
Beveridge,
aldermen.)
Priscilla Taylor, an emancipated negress, was granted permission to remain in the city.
W. F. Watson,
Esq., qualified as a
Notary Public.
Joe Cox, free negro, was granted a new register.
License was granted to the proprietors of the
Exchange Hotel to keep an ordinary.
The prosecution against them for keeping an ordinary without license grew out of their mistaking the
Sheriff's receipt for the tax on their license for the license itself.
A
nolle prosequi was entered in the case, they paying the costs.
(Absent--
Messrs. Beveridge and
Sadler.)
License to keep an ordinary was granted to
Frederick Coleman.
Edward S. Gentry's case, an appeal from the decision of the
Mayor, who had ordered him to be whipped for using insulting language to a white person, came up, and the said decision was reversed, and the appellant discharge.
The
Court, however, though formally applied to, refused to grant said
Gentry a certificate that he is a person of mixed blood, and not a negro; to which latter opinion of the
Court Gentry excepted, and took leave to file his bill of exceptions to-day.
Miss Lizzy Winn's case again occupied the attention of the jury from eleven o'clock till three, but they were still unable to agree on a verdict.
The court having repeatedly endeavored in vain to obtain a verdict in said case, this being the second jury empaneled for the trial thereof, the
Commonwealth's Attorney, by the advice of the
Court, entered a
nolle prosequi in the case, and
Miss Lizzy was discharged from custody, to her infinite satisfaction.
The
Court then adjourned until this morning.
