290 CONGRESSIONAL PllOCEEDINGS. 



Kentucky State sixes, redeemable in 1868 ; price $95 for each $100, pay- 

 able at New York ; interest payable January 1 and July 1. 



Kentucky State sixes, redeemable in 1846 ; price i585 for each $100, pay- 

 able at Frankfort, Kentucky ; interest payable April and October. 

 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



C. Macalkstkr. 

 Hon. Lkvi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. 



P. s. — The book for the transfer of the Pennsylvania loan being closed,, 

 these loans are now sold with the interest due 1st of February off. 



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Eastern Railroad Office, Boston, January 22, 1841. 



Sir : Your favor of the 18th instant is before me. I have sold all the 

 Massachusetts State stock which I recently had, and closed it at 99-J. 



But a friend has of Massachusetts State stock, payable in 18 years, 

 $20,000, drawing interest at 5J per annum, payable semi-annually, which 

 I can furnish at 99 per cent. ; and of New York State stock, payable in 

 about twenty years, $20,000, drawing interest at 5J per cent, per annum, 

 payable quarterly, at 98i per cent. 



New York city stock," payable in about 25 years, drawing interest at 6 

 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly, at 96J per cent. 



I am, sir, respectfully, B. T. Reed. 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



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Washington City, January 30, 1841. 

 Dear Sir : In reply to your favor of the 18th instant, we have to offer 

 you six per cent, stocks of the States of Illinois or Michigan, interest pay- 

 able half-yearly in New York, at eighty per cent., or one-half per cent, 

 below any offer you may have. 



Respectfully, your obedient servants, Corcoran & RiGOS. 



The Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasjiry. 



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 Treasury Department, January 30, 1841. 

 Gentlemen : Your offer of the Illinois bonds for the Smithsonian fund 

 is accepted at 79J. There was an offer of other stock at 80. 

 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury. 

 Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, Washington City. 



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Treasury Department, July 8, 1841. 

 Sir : There is at this time in the Treasury a balance of $18,271.86, be- 

 longing to the Smithsonian fund, which I am required by law to invest in 

 State stocks. 



If you have Massachusetts, Ohio, or New York State stocks to dispose of, 

 I will thank you to propose the amount of either yon are willing to deliver 

 to this Department for that balance. 



I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Thomas" Evting, Secretary of the T)-easury. 

 C J. NoURSE, Esq. — Present. 



[Letters of the same tenor and date as above were addressed to the fol- 

 lowing persons, viz : Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, of Washington ; Messrs. 



