Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-06-06
Court rrococd,nSs..-May Term.

Court ProcerdinGs---NnyT Term.
Perry A. Leatherbury qualified us
administrator of his deceased wife,
Leah A. Leatherbury.
Geo. f. Parker qualified as guar
dian of Rebecca Gardner, infant
child of William H. Gardner.
Last will OF William S. Kellam was
proved and Benjamin II. Gunter
qualified as executor.
Horace P. Mock qualified as guar
dian of his infant children, Mabel j.
and James 7. Mock.
Michael Glennan executed an adj
ditional bond as guardian of Eliza
beth and Anna Belle Scarburgh,
children of DR.. G.. Y. Scarburgh.
William j. Vessels qualified as
road surveyor of election district OF
Mappsville for term OF two years
beginning July LIST, 1896.
Following liduciary accounts were
confirmed: Adults of estates of Yves
ley Onions, Samuel Landlord and
Samuel c. Mason, deceased orphan
accounts of Virginia c. and Annie
F. Pitts, Thomas L. and Mary +
Human, Margie, Lee, William L. and
James T. Gibbops-trust accounts OF
Elizabeth NJ. Floyd, Lucinda E.
Walker, &c, James f. Newman and
Geo. E. Davis and wife.
The list OF drawn jurors for the
year ending May term, 1897, was
made out and placed in box by judge.
D. NJ. Merritt, Geo. G. Burch and
William Taylor, colored, who had
been recognized by Emory M;,flitt, j.
P, to answer indictments for selling
intoxicating liquors unlawfully, APP
peared in accordance with their
recognizances and were discharged
from same, the court having no juris
diction to try said offences.
The regular grand jury was enpan:
nelled and returned as true bills, in
dictments against Carr Russell for fe'
loniously breaking and entering a
hen house with intent to commit lar
ceny, and against William Sample
for grand larceny in stealing a COW
Russell was tried, convicted and sen
fenced to 30 days in Jail and to pay
fine of So and costs of prosecution
Sample was tried, convicted and sen
fenced to months in jail and to pay
a fine of So and costs of prosecution.
Accounts against Commonwealth
in criminal and lunacv cases were en-
tered as follows: Thos. G.. Clayton,
j. P, 81; John d. Watts, j. P, So; s.
4. Taylor, special constable. 1919;
Vim. NJ. Taylor, j. P, $50; Jos. L
Cooper, j. P, 81; jailer, $G7.15; attor-
ney for Commonwealth, $40.
Lloyd F. J. Wilson and Joseph L.
Cooper qualified as notaries public
for county of Accomac.
John F. Powell was appointed and
qualified as inspector of oysters for
district No. l, and WIN. J. Barnes
was appointed and qualified as in
spector of oysters for district No. 6.
I Authority to catch fish to be manu-
featured into oil or manure was
granted to the Chesapeake Naviga
ton and Manufacturing Company OF
Harborton, to John w. and VIM. c.
Bunting and to VIM. II. Marsh 4
Bro.
Authority to manufacture oil or
manure from alewives or menhaden
was granted to John W. and VIM. c.
Bunting.
Elk parte: Petition of Geo. w. Hin
mans admr. Report of James H
Fletcher, Jr., filed and confirmed.
Elk parte: Petition of Clarence P
GUSTS, &c's guardian. Report of j.
w. G.. Blackstone filed and confirmed.
Joseph w. Moore, colored, was
granted authority to celebrate the
rites of matrimony.
Elk parte: Petition of Alfred Mapp's
guardian IL. Floyd Nock.) Petition
filed and cause referred to commits
sioner of accounts.
Ex parte: Petition of Charlotte Z.
Harmon &c.'s acting guardian (Jas.
E. w. Figgs.) Petition filed and re-
ferred to commissioner Of accounts.
On exceptions to the audit of VIM.
T. Sample, colored, filed by Henry
Battaile. Exceptions sustained ia
part and partly overruled and audit
recommitted to commissioner with
instructions-and certificates of facts
proved, entered by the court, to per