Letter from Governor A. B. Moore at the Executive Department in Montgomery, Alabama, to W. M. Smith, president of the Bank of Selma in Selma, Alabama.
Item
Identifier
RSG00248_f11_Q0000135293_Q0000135294
Title
Letter from Governor A. B. Moore at the Executive Department in Montgomery, Alabama, to W. M. Smith, president of the Bank of Selma in Selma, Alabama.
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Type
Text
Creator
Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873.
Date
1861 March 30
Description
From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Transcribed copy of a letter from Governor Moore to President W. M. Smith of Bank of Selma. Reply to letter from Smith on March 28, 1861. Moore declines to use Commercial and Central Bank notes for payment of state bonds and responds to report of Mr. Copeland, assistant quartermaster, misappropriating state funds.
Format
letter
Place
Montgomery (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Annika Myrup
transcription
(Copy)
Executive Department Montgomery, Ala Mar 30th 1861
Wm. M. Smith Pres Bank of Selma Selma Ala
Dear Sir.
Have received your letter of the 28th March.
We could probably use Commercial and Central Bank notes to a limited extent without loss, but as those Banks are required by law to take a large amount of state bonds, so far as we shall be able to use those notes as equal to specie I should feel bound at first to extend that privilege to them: so that I could not now say that we could take any of their notes in payment for bonds.
You state that Mr Owens Clerk of Steamer st Charles told your Cashier that he saw a Mr English pay to Mr Copeland Asst Quarter Master One & half per cent for $100000 of the notes of the Bank of Selma. If Mr Copeland did so, it was a gross violation of his duty. The facts will be enquired into and steps taken to prevent future operations of this Character. Nothing shall be left undone on my part to prevent speculation upon the funds of the state to the prejudice of the state its Citizens or others
Very Respectfully sgd A. B. Moore
Copy of letter to W. M. Smith Pres Bk Selma Mar 30th 1861
Executive Department Montgomery, Ala Mar 30th 1861
Wm. M. Smith Pres Bank of Selma Selma Ala
Dear Sir.
Have received your letter of the 28th March.
We could probably use Commercial and Central Bank notes to a limited extent without loss, but as those Banks are required by law to take a large amount of state bonds, so far as we shall be able to use those notes as equal to specie I should feel bound at first to extend that privilege to them: so that I could not now say that we could take any of their notes in payment for bonds.
You state that Mr Owens Clerk of Steamer st Charles told your Cashier that he saw a Mr English pay to Mr Copeland Asst Quarter Master One & half per cent for $100000 of the notes of the Bank of Selma. If Mr Copeland did so, it was a gross violation of his duty. The facts will be enquired into and steps taken to prevent future operations of this Character. Nothing shall be left undone on my part to prevent speculation upon the funds of the state to the prejudice of the state its Citizens or others
Very Respectfully sgd A. B. Moore
Copy of letter to W. M. Smith Pres Bk Selma Mar 30th 1861
Subject
Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873;
Smith, Washington M.;
Bank of Selma (Selma, Ala.);
Governors--Alabama;
Alabama--Economic conditions;
Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865;
Banks and banking--Alabama;
State bonds--Alabama;
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Selma (Ala.);
Dallas County (Ala.);
Montgomery (Ala.);
Montgomery County (Ala.)
Smith, Washington M.;
Bank of Selma (Selma, Ala.);
Governors--Alabama;
Alabama--Economic conditions;
Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865;
Banks and banking--Alabama;
State bonds--Alabama;
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Selma (Ala.);
Dallas County (Ala.);
Montgomery (Ala.);
Montgomery County (Ala.)