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

Case No. 7,284.
    JENNINGS v. WASHINGTON.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 512.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1838.
    Mr. Dermott, for appellant,
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   But THE COUBT

(nem. con.) was of opinion that the by-law in question was justified by the clause in the charter which gives the corporation power “to restrain and prohibit the nightly and other disorderly meetings of slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes.” Judgment affirmed, with costs.