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Case No. 14,533.
    UNITED STATES v. BARTON.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 132.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    July Term, 1803.
    Witness — Competency—Manumitted Suaves.
    Manumitted slaves are good witnesses for or against a free mulatto in Washington county.
    [Cited in U. S v. Mullany, Case No. 15,832.]
    Indictment for stealing a handkerchief. Upon the prisoner being brought to the bar, he appeared to be a mulatto.
   Two black witnesses, manumitted, were produced by the United States. Objection overruled and witnesses admitted, after read-ins the acts of assembly of Maryland, 1717, c. 13, and 1796, c. 77. •

Barton was indicted as a freeman.