Ex parte Deane

2 Cranch 125 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia | 1811

THE COURT (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)

was .of opinion that the common

•council had no authority to make by-laws operating beyond the limits of the town, as described in the acts of 1790 and 1798, and that the jurisdiction of the mayor was confined to the same limits, and that the corporation could not enforce its by-laws by corporal punishments.