Quarter Master, Arkansas Militaa.

PETITION OF GOV: JAMES s: CONWAY
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PETITION OF GOV JAMES S. CONWAY

 TO SENATE OF U. S.

 James s. Conway, late Governor of Arkan- sas, humbly represents to the Congress oi the United States of America, that suit las been instituted against him by the Government of the United States for q very large sum of money, (to wit: S13000, including principal and interest, as an alleged balance remaining in his hands of the sum of S25,000 with which he was entrusted to defray the expenses incurred by the Regiment of Arkansas voun- teers, which was called into the service of the United States by General Gaines, in the year 1S36 That said suit has been prose- cuted unto judgment, and that execution has been ordered and levied on the property of your petitioner, and that his property will be sold on the first Monday in March next 10 satisfy said judgment and execution, unless your petitioner obtains relief from Congress. That your petitioner here mostsolemnly ayers that he does not owe exceeding one thousand dollars of this large sum of money, and Prays that Congress will relieve him from the resi- due thereof, which he does not owe, and to pay which would not only be unjust, but would in pecuniary point ot view prove runous to him.

 That when the sum of S25,000, with which he was entrusted as aforesaid, came to his hands, the Government Quarter Master, who had been appointed to the Regiment ol volunteers, had resigned, and that there was no other officer al or near Little Rock to dis charge the duties of that office; and in addi. ton to the duties which deyolved on him d the time as Governor of the State of Arkansas he was in quite i'll health, and could not in person attend to the examination and adjust ment of the numerous claims presented fol that service against the Government for pay ment, but had to entrust that duty 10 other hands, and from long and intimate acquaint- ance with the late R. D. C. Collins, Captain