AUDITOR OFFICE,
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LHtte Roc6, .Hfle., 18th Nocem6er, 1913. To the Editor of the Arkansas Banner;

 SIR: l would thank you to have the an- nexed correspondence, marked A aadR pub lished, for the information of those who feel a deep interest in every thing connected with the course of education, and who may expect the Auditor to purchase and distribute school books for the common schools of this State. to the Board of Commissioners ill each coun- ty, as authorized by section 32, of ''An act to establish a system of common schools in the State of Arkansas

 The common school fund was deposited in the Bank of the State of Arkansas, as a part of the capital of the bank.

 By the decision of the officers who now have charge of that institution, the appropri- ation of $l000, made to purchase school books, can only be paid sin y3rkaRsaS bdnk biliS;;n for they state that they ''See TO act ot he Lcgislatnre 10 wdrran our paying day Ming elSeo Arkansas bank bills are at dis count of about fifty per cent. It would seem impolitic, and the Auditor would not feel au- thorized, to draw and convert the amount ol the appropriation into par funds, at so great loss to the school fund.

 The law, of course, should be the guide oi the officers of the Bank, and if, under the law, as they have decided, they have no au- thority to pay the appropriation in specie there is no officer vested with the power to !" furnish hcm mih Me authority for so do- ing'

 Under the circumstances, as the language of the law IS not imperative that the books shall be purchased, 1t is deemed most adyisa- ble for the public good, not to draw the amount of the appropriation m .arkansas bank bills, whilst they are at so great dis count; for to draw and expend such depre- ciated paper, ''in some eastern city" for school books, would be sacrificing, at least, one half of the small appropriation, all of which may possibly, at some future period, be realized in par funds.

 ELIAS N. CONWAY, .4aliior

 of Arkansas