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

Case No. 17,239.
    WASHINGTON v. WHEATON.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 318.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1806.
    Corporate By-Law — Licensing op Hackney-Coaches.
    The corporation of Washington had authority, i under the charter of 1802 (section 7), to pass a by-law to regulate and license hackney-coaches.
    Appeal from the judgment of William Thornton, a justice of the peace, in an action of debt for penalty of the by-law, for running hacks without license, contrary to the by-law (chapter 9).
   THE COURT

instructed the jury that the corporation had a right and power under their charter of 3d May, 1802, § 7 (2 Stat. 197), to make such a by-law, and that it was necessary for the defendant to show an actual license.