From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/3/1862, p. 1, c. 5

Mayor's Court, Saturday, Nov. 1st - ... John Dixon and Mary Roberts, colored, complained of by Dr. Hancock, of General Hospital No. 18, near 22d street for keeping a cook shop without a license, and annoying the patients of the hospital by selling them various indigestible articles of cookery. The parties were ordered to be whipped by way of an admonition.

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