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R. E. V. Yates.

L. T. Yates.

Office of Yates Brothers,
General Life and Fire Insurance Agents,
Macon, Miss. April 3^d/ 1876

Aggregate Capital Represented
Over $75,000,000.
(Seventy-Five Millions.)

To his Excellency J. M. Stone
Governor of the State of Missssippi

As a member of the Bar in this District, enjoying a reasonable share of the practice in my potion of it, I venture, on my own account, though but slightly acquainted personally with your Excellency, to make a few suggestions with reference to the appointment of a Circuit Judge.

Now that the respectable people of the State have obtained control of the Government, I need not suggest the importance of filling Judicial positions with men who will not be the inferiors in any respect of the late encumbents. In many portions of the District ^state^ The people of cannot be worsted, but in our District it is different Judge Orr is not only a man of fine social position & character but he is also a most excellent lawyer and would as a jurist compare favorably with most of our Circuit Judges of Auld Lang Syne. Hence you will pardon me for suggesting the