... three acres of cotton land to a hand to a hand. The present extra session was called, among other things, for the purpose of reducing this amount. Then was great opposition to it. Mr. Hester, of Elbert , as we learn from the Milledgeville Recorder, furnished some calculations against it. The whole cotton crop of the eight Cotton States in 1862, he said was 4,000,000 bales, of which 370,000 had been ...