Letter (unidentified) related to secession and state affairs
Item
Identifier
RSG00248_f10_Q0000135001
Title
Letter (unidentified) related to secession and state affairs
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Type
Text
Creator
Unknown
Date
1861
Description
This one’s a bit vague, but it's clearly in the mix of all the early 1861 secession talk. Looks like it’s part of the same paper trail trying to rally support and organize the state's next moves.
Format
Letter
Place
Montgomery (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Spencer Hodge
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
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