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In Henrico county Court, January 25, 1865.

--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 Courthouse 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.

The following is the list, viz:

Allen, W. C.1
ball, Dandridge1
Cosby, J. W.1
Carrington, Colonel1
Cohn, Jacob1
Christian, Ann1
Duval, Samuel S.1
Duval, Miles1
Dickinson, B. F.1
Ellett, A. L.1
Edmunds, Robert1
friend, John E.1
Francis, James G.1
Ford, A. J.1
Garnett, William F. G.1
green, B. W. & Sons2
Haxall, Boling1
Heekler, V.1
Hughes, John C.1
Higginbotham, E. J.1
Johnston, Thomas1
Kerr, Mrs. & Robert Maxwell1
Knight, William C.2
Lersner3
Leake, T. C.2
Lawson, Peter1
Maynard, J. C.4
Omohundro's, S. Estate1
Poe, John1
Payne, Robert1
Randolph, William B.2
Shields, John C.1
Schutte, Richard1
Sheppard, Lavinia1
Stearns, Frank1
Taliaferro, William C.1
Taylor, M. S.1
Tinsloy, Reeves1
Winston, James1
Werth, John J., agent5
Westham Iron Works15

hospitals.

Louisiana Hospital1
Samp Lee1
Camp Winder Hospital11
Camp Jackson Hospital8
Howard Grove Hospital4
Chimborazo Hospital10
Stuart Hospital1

A copy — Teste:
William Eolkes, C. H. C. ja 26--5t

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