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 To GEORGE B. HAYDEN Dr. To printing GOO copies ofthe Journal of the House Of Rep resetatyes cantaning i've hundred and sixteen pages, 4s3 of which are in snallpca type at te rate o s SI s per page for the rs 5a0 and 59 cents per page or saea succeeding five handied Sl'ois Vo To printing s pages of rule and figure work, ia
 brcvIer at s3 60 per page for the first 500 CO.,
 pics and 59 cents per page for each succeed -- A, To nn,ins m'' Fable acco.npanying Pententiary
 Report, 400 Ms equal to nine and a half pa-
 ges, in snalpica type, at the above rates' S '' h specie, .., ...,, :, ., ...,. sI3s3 Is3 Z Z
 2,s7g 79 rasu HnS,,s Sy wafSs' i. 'ssus' O' 'e ' 200 % s,.ee. -I sl67s % The Auditor will issue warrant on the Treasury to C. R. Hayden public prinIeF for nineteen hundred anu seventy six dollars and twen,ytwo cents, being for the above balance ofs 6i9 T due to him for printing the Journals whici estimating State scrip as worth eo cents 10 tue d' lar, amounts to the above as sSn of s''so n n GREER secretary's oaice, Secretary oJ SfGfe. loth August, le49.
 State of Arkansas the amount of the within account August 18th, lsa9. lsigned,l G. H. HAYDEN. In further prosecution of these false accusa- tions, Woodruff makes the following extract from publication of the auditor: at has also charged thai paying for the appendix to the Joun of i4s 49 made precedent winch would con pei me o pay the appendix the Journal Of ls0 5l This the case because the peculiar phassoogy Of the appropriation b, approved loh January, lsi9 gave the Secretary control of the appropriation 10 pay for printing Of the Acts and Jonrnais by making the whole amount of that appropriation payable on hs simple oTde re qirng him o give no evidence uai he iaihuy or h"hesu dsbursed this appropfation"
 The law of 1s4S, making appropriations for printing and distributing the acts and journals, etc., declares that "aR payments for all such sr- penses shall De payable upon the orders of tae Seere- tT Of State, lrlica orders shall De scient uOIchers for the AuaitOr.'' And the act of the last Gener- al Assembly, making an appropriation for the same object, declares that "aH payments aeretor shall De upon accounts certified by he Secretary ot Stdte, ,uiich accounts so certified shall be s4cient VOuehers for the Auditor"
 The concession that the Secretary of State had entire control of the appropriation" seems to us to make the case much stronger in favor of that officer For, by mere simple order he could have drawn the money, and thus have evaded the " scrutimy' of the Auditor. But so far from avail ing himself of this authority and not wishing to conceal any of his official transactions he certified the accounts to the Auditor for payment, at the risk of his searching examination.
 We suppose it will not be contended that the Auditor was bound by that "entire control of the appropriation,'' thus waived, when the accounts were presented to him, and he saw that an attempt was made to steal the money of the '" tar payers" If he could not have averted the fraud, he could at least have exposed it. His forbearance towards the Secretary in this respect is remarkable.
 But, admit thai the Auditors hands were tied, and he had to sit quietly and See the Treasury robbed, we ask Woodruff to tell us how ii happen ed that the account of the Clerk for copying the appendix was paid. The Secretary of State had nothing to do with this account. nor did any other officer have "entire control of ths apRopr7atioa.' Yet we find that the Clerk was paid for copying the appendix not a word of which is to be found in the manuscript journal. And the fact that it was d.e appendix must have been brougtt prominently before the AuditorjssUr on she same dag the Clerk was paid for it. he was pald $500 for copying the manuscript journal. The account for tae appendix follows; the other can be seen in the Auditors office.
 THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
 To J-M. TEBBETTs Dr. rendered copying the Ap2endr of the Journal the House of Representatives. oi toe sessioaf lsis 49 and furnishag public pftlIeF containing b 099 words, a, 10 cts hundred, Sie % l, c B. Hayden, pubic pfnef oi the State ot Akansas, do certify thai Ai Tebbalts has araished with copy the Appendix of tho Journal of e House of Repre- senanves of the session Of lsis 4s eotans The ae1Ye number according my best estimate and opniOa, after having carefully examined and inspected te aape
 Received the Audar The Treasurer of the
 J. Nj. rEBBErrs Late January l3, Isl9. Clerk Ho. Reps. IL seems to us that any attempt to discriminate between the accounts Of Hayden and Whiteley on the ground of the "peeuliar phraseology'' of the acts of ISts aud 1850 must, 10 sensible mind, appear peculiarly Isasriie.
 The act of Isls says, the appropriation may be drawn on the "orisr' of the Secretary of State; and by the act of 1850, t may be drawn on fac courts certified" both of which "shaH De sg6 eie.t raacaers for tke Auditor" We understand it is assumed that the Auditor has authority, and il is Lis duty to disregard the certificates of all officers inlras,ed with the disbursement Of the public money, and to scrutiniEe and audit all ac. counts according to Ais opinion of their merts.-- Admit il for argument; was he not, therefore, as much bound to go behind the "safsicient youch- ers'' of the Secretary of State in Haydeas case as in whiteley's9 Assurediy this must be manifest to all.
 { 1 W nave saiu haosc "h tiS Suo31S' PiVoaoiy than was necessary, but there IS one thing we have omitted. Haydens account, published above, shows that he was paid $500 in scrip on the s0th Juno and $500 on the ist of August, lS49. Mai. Cheer informs us that those payments Ters made upon his simple order.. Before Hayden had finished the prinsingo the ioe-aals, and of course before the account was made out. he went to the Secretary of State and importuned him for these atledging his great embarrassment. and the difficulty he had in finishing the work, then