Year: 1861

 In the Circuit Court of said county, Oct 5th, 1861

 And now upon this day came into open court, the Grand Jury of said county, and presents the following resolutions to the Hon. II. B. Stuart.

 SIR: We the members of the Grand Jury ot Scott county tender to you our thanks for the able and efficient manner in which you have discharged the duties dey oving upon you our Circuit Judge in keeping order in your court; and in your impartial decis ons, we have evidence of your upSight- ness and ability, that we proud of an assurance of the faithful execution of justice, 80 long you shall preside. We also tender you our sincere thanks for the courtesy shown us and the facility with which you have enabled us by keeping good order to dispatch business. 2l, We cannot pass by without consultation, with courtesy and kindness o N J. Temple, our able prosecuting attorney, he has offered Us great facilities in our arCuous lab0rs and shown himself on every occasion both able and willing to discharge his duties. We also wish to bring to your notice some facts in relation to the present state of OUT country. We as the grand inquest Of the county of Scot, representing every township in the county, have endeavored to bring to justice all enemies ot our government, but owing to the shortness of the time allowed to discharge our duties we have been only partially successful leaving many things undone that we would gladly have accomplished only for the impossibility ol procuring witnesses who reside so great distance as to render 1t mpractcabie to get them before us We though would say to our sheriff. constable anu justices oI the peace that in these war times, that 1t is their duty ill all cases where they know men to be traitors to our cause and the s0utn that they should cause them to be arrested and put in jail to answer for their treason at the next circuit court for in these times no man should be permitted to reside in the county of Seott and go at large but the friends of the south and tae Confederate States of America.

 We have also had under consideration to some extent the public policy that should be pursued by our citizens in relation to the currency of our COun try and commend to our merchants and business men as the most efficient manner to serve their country is to receive the War Bonds and Confe1- crate money at par, for to depreciate our War Bonds or the Confederate money Is to the extent of such depreciation oetracting from the ability ot the Confederate States to carry on the diftusive war in which We are now engaged, and in which, should we prove unsuccessful, we will be subju- gated people, and held in slavery by the arch trai- tors and tyrants of the north, property will be worthless our towns and cities burned, our families outraged, our fresides desoaed by the unholy crusade now waged against Us by the fanatics of the north Therefore cannot regard any who is attempting to put down the War Bonds of Ar kansas, or Confederate money below par, as true friend to his country Ne request that your Honor have this spread upon the records of your court and CODY transmitted to the newspapers published in Fort Smith, Arkadelphia and True Democrat, with the request that the same be published in all the papers triesdly to the south

 HARRISON HAIL, Foreman. Attest:

 A true copy from the record.

 STEPHEN GRAVES, Clerk.

 By L. D. GILBRETH, D. c.