Promissory note for a loan from the Central Bank of Alabama to the State of Alabama.

Item

Identifier

RSG00248_f10_Q0000135001

Title

Promissory note for a loan from the Central Bank of Alabama to the State of Alabama.

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Type

Text

Creator

Unknown

Date

1861 Feburary 1

Description


The amount loaned was one hundred thousand dollars, payable on June 1st, 1862.The note was signed by Governor A. B. Moore and W. J. Greene, the Alabama Comptroller of Public Accounts.

Format

Letter

Place

Montgomery (Ala.)

Publisher

Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)

Contributor

Spencer Hodge

Relation

transcription

The State of Alabama Know all men by these Presents That the State of Alabama acknowled ges itself to owe and be indebted to the Central Bank of Alabama, in the sum of One hundred Thousand Dollars being the amount borrowed by me as the Governor of said State from said Cen tral Bank on the First day of February 1861 under the provisions of an Act of the General assembly of said State approved 25 Janu ary, 1861, and entitled "An act, to provide for the payment of the members and officers of the General Assembly and of the Delegates and officers of the Convention of the People of Alabama now in session at Montgomery and for other purposes" which said sum of One hundred Thousand Dollars, together with the interest thereon at the rate of eight per centum per annum from the said First day of February 1861 is due and payable to said Bank or its order at the Office of the State Treasurer on the First day of June in the year 1862

In witness whereof I Andrew B Moore Governor of said State have signed this obli gation and caused the same the same to be countersigned by the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and the Great seal of the State to be affixed on this the First day of February A. D. 1861

A. B. Moore Gov of Ala

W J Greene Contr. P. A.

[Written vertically:] Received of W. J. Greene Comptroller of Public Accounts One Hundred thousand dollars in State Bonds dated 1st July 1862 & receiving Ten years in extension of the debt for which this Bank was given July 27th 1869

Subject

Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807–1873; Alabama—Politics and government—To 1865; Secession—Southern States; United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865