

BANK OF THE STATE or ARKANSAS. }

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Little Rock, l3h Noe l543 To ELIAS N. CONWAY, Esq, Auditor of Arkansas

 DEAR SlR-Upon your request for a rrit- len dnswer (designed, as we understand, for publication,) to the enquiry made in July last" whether the appropriation ofone thou sand dollars, made at the last session of the Legislature, out of the Common School fund, for purchase of books, &c would be paid in specie, or par funds 'o-we can only re- ply, that no individual is more conversant than yourself as to the intention of the La- gislature on that subject, and what latitude of construction can be put upon the act. The expenditure of the money being designed for general public good, we have every possible desire to furnish specie, or par funds, but the :. Common School fund'' having been origi- nally deposited by the Treasurer in .4rkan- Sas Bank bills, we can at present see no act of the Legislature to warrant our paying any thing else; but if the Governor and yourself can furnish us with any authority for so do- ing, we will with great pleasure pay the specie

 Very respectfully, yours,

 $. M. RUTH ERFORD, Erecutice Recr.

 J. II. CREASE, Financial Rec'r