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Case No. 6,345.
    GEORGETOWN v. CHEW.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 508.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1838.
    Mcxicipai, Coui’ojíatiojcs — Power to Rent Kish Wharves.
    Tlie corporaiion of Georgetown has power to rent fish wharves.
    Debt [by the mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common council of Georgetown] upon a bond for $2,030, conditioned to pay to the plaintiff tlie sum of $1.025 for rent of certain fish wharves belonging to the corporation of Georgetown. After oyer of the condition the defendant [Samuel Chew] demurred to the declaration.
    R. J. Brent, for defendant, contended that • the corporation had no power to rent fish wharves; no such power is given them by their charter; and no corporation can exercise a power not expressly given or necessarily implied from some express power. Ang. & A. Corp. 140, 140.
   But

THE COURT

(CRANCH, Chief Judge,

not giving any opinion) instantly overruled the demurrer without hearing Mr. Dunlap, for plaintiffs.