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Ken tuck J' State sixes, redeemable in 1846; price-, $85 for each $100, payable at 

 Frankfort, Kentucky ; interest payable April and October. 

 T am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



C. Macalester. 

 lion. Levi Woodbury, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 

 P. 8. — The book for the transfer of the Pennsylvania loan being closed, these loans 

 art' now sold with the interest due 1st of February off. 



D 49. 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 semiannually, which I can furnish at 99 per cent; 

 and of New York State stock, payable in about twenty years, $20,000, drawing interest 

 at 5^ per cent per annum, payable quarterly, at 98^ per cent. 



New York City stock, payable in about 25 years, drawing interest at 5 per cent per 

 annum, payable quarterly, at 96^ per cent. 



I am, sir, respectfully, 



B. T. Reed. 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 



D 50. Washington City, January 30, 1841. 



Dear Sir: In reply to your favor of the I8th instant, we have to offer you six per 

 cent stocks of the States of Illinois or Michigan, interest payable 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 & Riggs. 

 Hon. Levi Woodbury, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



D 51. Treasury Department, January 30, 1841. 



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

 at 79^. There was an offer of other stock at 80. 



I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, 



Washington City. 



Levi Woodbury, 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 



D 52. Treasury Department, July 8, 1841- 



Sir: There is at this time in the Treasury a balance of $18,271.86 belonging 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 you are willing to deliver to this Depart- 

 ment for that balance. 



I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Thomas Ewing, 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 

 C. J. NouKSE, Esq. , Present. 



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

 sons, viz: Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, of Washington; Messrs. J. E. Thayer & Brother, 

 of Boston; and Messrs. Nevins, Townsend & Co., of New York.] 



