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large for the convenience of the inhabitants & this evil is greatly increased since the freedmen have to attend court. It is ruinous to them to have to travel from 25 to 35 miles to the Court House, as many of them do, and then the business of the courts is so greatly increased that they often have to wait several days before their business can be attended to. I have seen them waiting about the Court House in a destitute condition complaining that they had no means of obtaining food.  If this reaches Montgomery before the convention adjourns & you would take the trouble to suggest to some of the members, they can greatly benefit the citizens of both races by so framing the constitution as to authorize the legislature to make counties of as small a size as 300 square miles, or 324 at least.
Very Respectfully Yours
LH Davis,

P.S.- The freedmen & all poor men as far as I have talked with them, feel that this large exemption law of $3000 or $4000 is a great injury to them. They need a little credit to start upon but cannot get it because the property upon which it would be based is all