Nathan Sargent from Clement Comer Clay, Mar. 14, 1832

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Nathan Sargent Esq.

Dear Sir,

In reply to your note of this morning, requesting me to state “the practice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, in regard to the admission of attorneys, coming from other states, into that, [text crossed out] {Court}and also, whether you were an attorney of that Court”?  I have to say --- it has been the general practice of that court to consider a License, from any other state, sufficient to entitle a candidate for admission to examination, which is regained by law, but which, under such circumstance, is firstly much matter of form.  I have known no instances, in which a License has been refused to such an applicant.  You were an attorney of that court before, and at the time of your removal --- as I know personally --- having been the presiding judge of that court, from the Spring of 1820 to December 1823.