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

Case No. 15,452.
    UNITED STATES v. JACK.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 44.] 1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1801.
    Circuit Court District Columbia—Jurisdiction.
    This court has not jurisdiction of larceny by a slave..
    Indictment [against negro Jack, a slave] for theft. Plea to the jurisdiction, it being a case cognizable only by a justice of the peace, by the act of assembly of Maryland.
   THE COURT

decided that they had not jurisdiction, and ordered the slave to be delivered to a constable to be earned before a justice of the peace.