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Kentucky State sixes, redeemable in 1846; price, $85 for each $100, payable at 

 Frankfort, Kentucky; interest payable April and October. 

 I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Ui-f, i : C. MACALESTER. 



- Hon. LBVI WOODBUBY, 



Secretary } of the Treasury. 



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

 are now sold with the interesj; due 1st of February off. 



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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$. 



But a friend has of Massachusetts State stock, payable in 18 years, $20,000, drawing 

 interest at 5$ per annum, payable semianrraally, 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, ,gakn< 



B. T. REED. 

 SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 







D 50. WASHINGTON CITY, January SO, 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 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 & RIQQS. 



Him. I.KVI WOODBFRY, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 







D 61? '" 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, 



LEVI WOODBURY, 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 

 Messrs. CORCORAN & RIGGS, 



Washington City. 







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. NouRSE,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.] 



