258 OONGEESSIONAL PEO0EEDING8. 



D 27. Nkw York, August 18, 1838. 



Dear Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 13th 

 instant, and in reply have to inform you that, owing to its delay in reaching us, a 

 negotiation for the whole amount of the Mississippi bonds had been previously set 

 on foot. 



We are therefore under the necessity of asking permission to withdraw our propo- 

 sition. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servants, 



E. C. Wilkinson, 



J. C. WiLKINS, 



By E. C. Wilkinson. 

 Mr. McClintock Young, 



Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 



D 28. New York, August 20, 1838. 



Sir: The fund commissioners of Indiana will furnish Indiana 5 per cent bonds, 

 having 24 to 25 years to run from 1st July last, interest payable semiannually in 

 New York at par, to the amount of from one to five hundred thousand dollars, and 

 will receive therefor either cash or the bonds of the State Bank of Indiana. 

 I would inquire when I may learn whether our proposition is accepted. 

 For the fund commissioners of Indiana, 



Isaac Coe, Fund Commissioner. 

 Hon. Levi Woodbury, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



D 29. The Bank op the State of Missouri, 



St. Louis, August 23, 1838. 

 Dear Sir: I have lately seen your advertisement for proposals for the investment 

 of the Smithsonian legacy in State bonds, &c. 



I should be pleased to sell $114,000 of Missouri State bonds at 5^ per cent interest, 

 payable semiannually in the city of New York, and the principal redeemable twenty- 

 five years after negotiation. 



These bonds have been sent to London for sale, but can be withdrawn at any time 

 if not sold. I would therefore propose to sell them to you at 2 per cent premium, 

 subject to the sale in London. If not sold upon the arrival of the order in London 

 for returning them to the United States, the sale will take effect and the bonds be 

 returned without delay and delivered to you. 



I have the honor to remain, your obedient servant, 



John Smith, President. 

 Hon. Levi Woodbury. 



Secretary of the Treasury, Washington City. 



D 30. Treasury Department, August 23, 1838. 



Sir: Referring to your offer to sell to the Department 1500,000 of 6 per cent Arkan- 

 sas State bonds at OOyf ^ per cent, I have to request that you will submit for my 

 examination the law of the State authorizing the issue of the bonds and the form of 

 the bonds. If both be satisfactory, I am willing, on the arrival of the money, to take 

 the net amount (which will not be far from half a million of dollars) at the rate 

 offered by you, as it is the lowest bid. 

 It is expected that the money may be by this time in Ne\\' York. 

 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Levi Woodbury, 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 

 W. W. Corcoran, Esq. 



