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these having several important Chancery
Causes here & being the only Counsel im
=ployed on that side it is very impor=
tant to my clients that I should attend said
Court; and there being several Capital
state Causes in the Circuiut Court in
Humphreys County I could not think
of holding the appointment and not
attending said Court; as I believe that
all public officers should first discharge
the duties of the office & then attend to
his private interest. If you make the
appointment on the 15th of march the
mail will leave Nashville on that day
at 2 oclock for Reynoldsburg, where it
will arrive on the morning of the seven
=teenth which will be the first day of
the Circuit Court there, the County
Court of Carroll will adjourn on
Thursday or friday before the 15th of
march, by your notifying the person
that you will give the appointment to,
that he may attend at Reynolds=
=burg & receive his commission a
proper officer will be there to discharge
the duties of said office, all the persons
who intend to apply will do so by the
first day of next month, that you
will have ten or twelve days to