State v. Crawford

Eakin, 3.

The general assembly of the state of Arkansas passed the following act, which was approved on the fifteenth of March, 1879 :

“An act to settle the debt due from the state of Arkansas to L. L. Johnson and D. H. Reynolds, and the debt due to her from them.'

“Whereas, The state of Arkansas was, on March 1,1872 indebted to Johnson and Reynolds in the sum of $38,032.45,’ in currency, for work done by them oh the public levees in Chicot county; and Johnson and Reynolds were, at that time, indebted to the state of Arkansas, on account of mortgages to the Real Estate bank, in the sum of…