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weakness of the flesh, bootlegging, selling “ardent spirits’1 to slaves without permission of the owners, disturbing the peace and failure of overseers to keep the roads in repair. It seems that the authorities showed tolerance in these cases, but not when a citizen was indicted for stealing “bank notes’’ from the Clerk’s Office. The accused was held without bail, convicted and sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary at Richmond.
FUnt Hill provided one of the more lively cases, when on Sept. 22, 1834 the “owner of a house of intertainment and public resort*’ was indicted for selling “ardent spirits without a license”, “suffering quarrelling, fighting, drunkness (sic) and unlawful gaming” by its guests and “other notorious persons.” Hie gaming offense consisted of running a Faro game, which apparently aroused suspicions of the players as to its operation. A fight broke out, followed by a raid in which the proprietor, his “houseman” and eighteen participants, representative and substantial citizens, were picked up and Indicted.
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