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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 10,813.
    PATTEN v. WASHINGTON.
    [3 Cranch, C. C. 654.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec., 1829.
    Justice or Peace — Authority to Take Boxtj for Good Behavior — Com mox Prostitute.
    A justice of the peace in the city of Washington has authority, under the charter of May 4, 1812, and the by-law of the 16th of December, 1812, section 7, to require a common prostitute to give security for her good behavior; and has jurisdiction of a suit upon the bond given therefor; the penalty not exceeding $20.
   Appeal from the judgment of Mr. Justice Wharton, for $20, the penalty of a bond heretofore taken by him from Dolly Atm Patten, a notorious common prostitute, and keeper of a brothel, under the seventh section of the by-law of the corporation of Washington, of December 16. 1812.

Judgment affirmed with costs.