The Arkansas banner., 1844-11-20

himself to public indignaton however misdected m time for delibeaton Yourmemorialist promptly proceed and New Orleans and, few days after his return bo Banks at Natchez had suspended specie payments ba to make second trip that place. and thence to Wasb con where he procured the Secretary of the Treasury to drafts to the amount of $l00000 in lieu of those @ sa banks at Naehez, and by various arrangements great n and responsibility, your meoriaist succeeded in coectn porting to this place. the whole of the surplus revenue o State and amounting the of S2S6 575 49 For accomplishment of this arduous duty, at period of the @ general financial Arrangement and difficulty known @ of the country, without the loss of cent to the State and detriment of his private affairs, the of your as actual and unavoidable expenses was only $595 Acco usual rates of freight and insurance upon money; or per centage and mileage allowed, at the tne by the Jni the Receivers of Public Moneys who make deposites nj or according to the allowances made to the commisson banks of this Sate the surplus revenue fund could not m collected and transported at less expense to the State than
 Your memoras under bond to the State in the en of $500 00O For considerable time before the State Ral operation he had the personal care and custody of the m including the surplus revenue of which over SEQ 00 @ The business of the State chiefly conducted scrio to be issued and received and cancelled, with great pan The fixed salary of the Treasurer only $700; ddnc the of S294 75 of actual expenses rejected and 6 of $134 25 paid out of his salary to the person who n the duties of Treasurer during his absence official busn leaves your memoas only the pany of S271 wla the remuneration he has received for the arduou and no ties ordinary and extraordinary imposed him. at time WS " species of property and labor at the highest rate
 The Supreme Court, looking only the face of the law m the conclusion, that the act of 1S36 fixing the salaries of the and Treasurer S700 intended to cut off all other comps But your memoraist knows that in point of fact such was intention of the members of that General Assembly and ths he would call attention to subsequent pon M subject.
 It will be seen then ha by the act of December 1s37 authorized to borrow from the Bank of the State sa be paid into the State Treasury, for paying the cuan the State and in like manner, the Governor was aho the of Sd March, 1888, borrow $50 000 for the ym expenses of the State for the year 1858 thus relieving the Treasurer from of his most aborious and intricate du carrying the financial operations of the State by issuing ss ing interest to be registered and subsequently, cancelled wh degree of paiculary By the act in the Revised Statutes con ing the Auditor and Treasurer put in force by the act of the HI eember lS3S is made the duty of the Treasurer to de moneys belonging the State which may come into his hands days after the receipt thereof in the Bank of the State M thus relieving the Treasurer from all responsibility for the loss tructon of the public funds while in deposie and from that and wacness which the personal custody of these funds casion and yet by the act of December, lS3S the o of the Treasurer reduced from 200 GOO 50 GOO his increased from S700 I 000 and by the of 3d March (Reo Sat. D. 39S, 2l the Treasurer is allowed comn five per all received by him for the redempond sold for aXeswlhoHt, however giving 1t retrospective o 10 allow your memoral Aat per ceatage the paid into the Treasury for the redemption of lands, from the entered the duties of the office until the passage of haa of more than sixteen months during which he received which he has been allowed no commission.
 When 1t ecoected that the immediate predecessor of yo moraist in the office of Treasurer aer the passage of the law October, 1858, axing salaries, and e time when your riast commissioned and qualified charged, ad an the General Assembly,, the commission of ten per moneys received for th2 redemption of lands and that te Public Accounts, whose right to pequste and fees of office in precisely the manner, and to the extent that 1 Treasurer if the construction claimed for the of October be couec continued always, after the passage of that and receive in his official capacity, and above the fixed S700, which allowed, all the extra compensation and fees the Auditor and Treasurer by previous existing laws u the redemption of lands, without ornvestgaion your ras stung by the reflection, that the injustice done him the more marked and signal
 Your memorialis in conclusion, invites thorough invj the matter he now presents and pays your honorable body such action in the premises that the of your me late Treasurer of the State of Arkansas, stated and rendgd O. he dandal suit of the State now pending in the Pulaski Circuit Co d your memoralist and his securities, his official bond f $2 395 IS, be discontinued.
 And your memoaist, as in duty bound will pray, &t
 VIM. F.. WOODRA1
 LITTLE RocK, Nov 16, 1S44
 As act of justice to the Auditor proper that should a compensation and fees here alluded received by him from the deemed ands and therefore, paid the State