Evening star., 1877-09-19
l. OCAL " VS..
District Government Affairs.

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seven. and seven out of one hundred aud
s,csr.e calm sgenis have paid their
st,'an nGensS tsh, says he can only report that
case OF The kind brought 10 Ms att s5t,oa nv
any person willing 20 swear 10 the i1sorfnas
ton has been duly prosecuted
PATENT ArroRNENs IICF~SNS
A Delegation OF patent auorneyS heafei
nv Mr.. Baldwin, callei upon the Dtsfrt.s
Commissioners this morning 20 urge mar
the license law governing patent agents be
Lot enforced on the ground of a being M
constitutional. Mr.. Baldwin gave hts views
upon the points presented, and after some
sisief that they would take the matter into
clnsions.
A letter from District Treasurer nalgs %
The CommisSiOr'srs. bearing date August -.
states that patent agent located va the city
applied for "A license, that he Mr. d. was
informed that 70 was the nrsi aDplicattoa
mace Tor tTo or three years. and that a deci-
sion was < ven ~ the Police Court and bv
The Supry me Crurt of the District r.slutrins
psie1t sEeEtS TO Tay lcease. and tlst The
case hsd been taken up TO the supreme
Court OF M Drit@f = stes lie asks Tor in
formation and whether any Siens can ne
iaken 10 secure the payment OF these licenses
TO The District government
This was referred - ATTORNEY Brney whom
reply states that IN is5i. soon Rfer the paS age
~ the license act. r ". Alexander. Daniel
Breed and Others flied their hill "a equity 20
restrain the collection of this taE. n Osto.
Ger following decree by the justice holding
,.e a. .,,p sp.elai term was TaSsed granting The
District, and on February a lS72 tn coart
IN X neral term les ersed The decree helow aud
alsinlsssd The bul. An appeal 10 tie SUI
nrehe Court OF the TUT q S'stcS voted by
lhe i IIalniiiS, was n 9 Eerfeciei 81 mat the
decree of the general term sustaining the
law remains nnal Ina the case.
DFLFeArIoS or PRoPFRrY OWNERS
oi sfh street mort hweSi-cnflsistfpsgo of NoSsrs
NJ. G. Emery. W. w. Burdette q Nickel
den, and MessrS. Nattingiy, Reverfdcp Key
worth. Moran. Raj antvne, ani Others "a .itat
upon the nistr.c; Commissioners this MORN
Ing. 10 pro.CSt against the LAYING OF stone
pavement on that street, aud advocate the
laying OF concrete pavement. al the best
quality. They presented y petition signed
hy Two hundred property holders aui busi.
less men. asking Tor the substituting NJ con-
crete for the granite block. Mr.J q. Nickel
den MAS the spokesman, and mad an earnest
afIeal for The change.
Commissions Bryan. after listen lng 20 the
J. marks, g. pressed surprise at the rec ueSt
~ his late per od. tie rcciied the action
'aktn 10y the authorities m relation to the
ssloCjion OF the era rf &c block IN pace nf con-
creie. which action was mainly decided
upon before ne came into Office. TIE Com
niEsioHerS- he believed, had been governed
~ the wishes ~ properly owners on thai
street, and by The almost unaniinous wish
OF the business men there
Mr.. Mckeldcn here interrupted Commits
sloner Bryan. saying, Ia quite an excited
way, that the business mon should have no
voice In the matter; that II was for the owners
oi me rropeTiy exclusively 10 say what
Judge Bryan here checked Mr. McKaldep
stating that he differed with him somewhat
upon this point: he thought the business men
were aS much ~ not more interested than
me owners Of property as 10 the Kind OF
Iavems MT adopted. He called Mr.. Nickel
q, n = attention to the circumstance OF his
lNcK.'s) accompanying n delegation of the
business men 10 see the District t,ommiss ion.
ers some months since. when the matter Of
choosing tho kind OF pavement was under
40 Use In' nt, and be was then, as now, the
bpokes m, n, and advocated In the strongest
terms the stone pavement IS the best. and
and mat concrete pavement would uot sR-
fwer at all. The delegation looked some,
what surprised Al this. Mr.. McKelden did
not explain why ne had changed his views
ont said something about stone being 30 un-
even ard rough.
Commissioner Bryan continued saving
now that the contract had been given out,
the stone, Cape Ann granite OF the best DUAL.
ity- brought here and deposited on the
ground, with other material, and portion
OF The work completed. IL was Impossible
that any further charge can be made.
The other commissioners present took the
same view ofthe case, and the delegation re-
tired.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION TO AUc-
TONER'S, &C.-To day, Judge Humphreys
decided case OF considerable interest 20
magistrates-that OF Hilton sgi. Duncanson
in which the question Is a. TO am appeal
nom tie judgment of a justice on the verdict
OF a jury. The facts are that Duncanson, as
an auCIIoreeE. in November, lS16, sold a sofa
which had BEEN seized in execution by a coi4-
stable, 10 satisfy Justices Judgment, aaI
Hilton was the purchaser. About six
months thereafter a party clajmel title 20
jhe sofa end rsplevied il from Hilton, woo
Allowed Judgment to go against him by de-
fault, and had TO pay costs. He then brought
suit against Justice Lynch la recover The
value OF The sofa, and The costs OF tie suit,
and demanded "A jury trial. = verdict gas
rendered !or plaintiff. and as no appeal or
wit II error will lie in the case OF Justices
judgment on The verdict of a Jury l. lncanson
nl6c petition for q writ of cerliorarl. It
was cOntence1 that The rule does not apply
in this case as the justice had no jlTisiIctio;I,
he suit having been Improperly brought
against Duncanson instead OF the cons, able
Who had possessson OF the property AT the
tine- The case was argued by John A.
Clarke for petitioner (DuucansOnl, and A.
X. Browne ard J. r. Mcconnell for Hilton.
Judge Humphreys this morning decided TO
grant the writ. and the case will, therefore,
be placed Oh the Circuit Court calendar for
trial.
MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued to