The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-11-15

| CONFLICT OF hUIhohiii' H
the 10th day of March an Act en-
titled IAN Act authorizing the treasu
rer to issue interest-bearing certificate
on bank note paper" was apPproveC
BY the Governor, and thereupon be
came law. The first section OF the
act reads as follows:
"That when an authorized auditor
warrant shall be presented to the treas
urer, and there is no money in thu
treasury out of which the same can b'
paid, then, and in that case, the treas
urer shall issue treaurers certificate
for the amount specified in said war
rant, which certificate shall bear five
per cent. per annum from date until
paid. Said certificates shall be rcceipd'
bic for all state aud county tdres, and
all other debts due tie State, except in
terest on the public debt"
In due time the State treasurer had
the certificates printed on bank note
paper as required, and he very properly
caused to be printed on the back of
| each and every certificate the follow
ing words: Receivable for all State
and county taxes and dues, ercept M
terea on the public debt. Issued under
the provisions of an act entitled an act
authorizing the treasurer to issue inter-
est-bearing certificates on bank note
paper. Approved March 10Th 1871"
These certificates are all duly signed
"Henry Page, State Treasurer.
And now comes the county court Of
Hampstead county, and makes the fol-
lowing order:
HEMpsTEAD COUNTY CoURT,
M. d. Kent, County Attorney.
On motion Of M. d. Kent on behalf
of the county of Hampstead: 1t is
ordered by the Court, that no State
scrip or treasury warrants Of the State
of Arkansas, be received for county
taxes, and that the collector for sait
county be and is hereby notified ant
advised that no Treasury certificates
of the State Of Arkansas, issued under
the act of March 10th. 1871, will b'
received and credited to said collector
| in his settlement for county taxes"
Thus we have the legislature of
State, the State Treasurer, and w
believe the Auditor on one side, an'
the county court of Hampstead count.
OH the other. 1t remains to be seel
whether the latter tribunal can n ullif
an act of the legislature, who's
creature the court itself is.
AS to its orders to the collector,
we are not very badly mistaken, tn
collector has no settlement to make witt
the county court. He settles with tn
county treasurer aud the treasure
with the court. We are not informe,
whether the collector regards the coun
ty court or the legislature as the supe
rior authority, but if he refuses t'
receive the certificates by law made
receivable, we are inclined to the belle
that he will have a huge delinquent
list TO make out. In short if he re-
CARDS the order of the county court,
the question will have to go to a high
er tribunal for adjudication, because
the ia, payers will not submit without
at least an effort to secure what they
believe to be their rights.
These certificates are now worth
eighty to ninety cents. Let the order
of the Hampstead county court be
sustained and they will not be worth
fifty. When the States credit is not
good to one of its counties, then indeed
il is worthless to individuals and TO
corporations. But the State has
pledged herself to every holder Of one
of these certificates, and she is bound
by that pledge, and must sustain her
credit. i
FREAK OF NATURE.-While Mt
Lewisville, last week, we were presented
hv Mr. Little of that place, with n po-