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JUNE · I 9 I 2 You wiD observe that the commitments to the Macon County Jai} for the past year, a~6, were almost one-fourth of what was reported as committed to all prisons in the state for 1909. The commitments of Negroes to all Georgia prisons for 1904 were 958. The use of the word ''commitments'' by the United States Census does not mean the same as it does when used by Sheriff Daniel. The difficulty comes, however, in trying to distinguish between the two uses of the word. Permit me to suggest what I believe is a better and a convincing way of contrasting the orderliness of Macon County with other counties and cities. This Con be done by comparing the number of criminal cases tried in Macon County with the number of criminal cases tried in other counties and cities. We can easily secure from the clerk of the Macon County Court the number of criminal cases tried in this county. The biennial report of the attorney general of the state furnishes the data for other counties and cities. The comparison would be thus: for each thousand persons in Macon County there was probably about five criminal cases; the number of criminal cases for each thousand persons in Jefferson County was 27; in Walker County, 39; in the City of Montgomery, 20; iI1 Bessemer, 60; TalIadega City, 83. This appears to indicate that there is from two to ten times more disorderliness in some other parts of Alabama than there is in Macon County. The number of murder cases tried in the Macon County Court can also be contrasted with the number of murder cases tried in the courts of other counties and cities; for example, the three or four murder cases in the Macon County Court can be contrasted with the ~3 murder cases in the Anniston City Court, or the 35 murder cases in Montgomery, the ~3 murder cases in the Gadsden City Court, the 25 murder cases in the Mobile City Court, the ~7 murder cases in the Jackson County Court, the 20 murder cases in the Tuscaloosa County Court, the ay murder cases in the Walker County Court, and the go murder cases in the Jefferson County Court. If this suggestion meets your approval, I will frame a letter to the clerk of the Macon County Court, and will also try to interview him. Monroe N. Work] TL Con. 985 BTW Papers DLC. 549