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Hustings Court.

--The following is the third day's proceedings of the November term of the Hustings Court of Magistrates:

William, slave of Ben Green, charged with breaking into Elizabeth Wunnicutt's house an stealing a lot of clothes, was ordered to receive thirty-nine lashes to-day and the same number to-morrow.

Jacob Drew, free negro; Jacob, slave of Ann Ford; and Curtis, slave of Jesse F. Keesee, charged with breaking into J. N. Hoetlick's store and stealing several thousand dollars' worth of groceries, &c., were convicted offence, and the first ordered sold into slavery, the second to be sold into slavery, and the third was discharged.

Joseph Myere, charged with larceny, was discharged.

Patrick and Dennis, Sweeney, charged with assaulting Matthew Macauley, were discharged.

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