Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: G. W. Blackburn issued this broadside on June 22, 1869 as a public notice informing the state's revenue officers of the treasury's dire financial situation. Blackburn explains his recently acquired legal rights as comptroller to issue bonds (in this instance, bonds valued at $400,000) to pay the state's debt. Due to increasing expenditures and shrinking tax revenues, the Tennessee state treasury faced a potentially dangerous situation: if they defaulted on their bonds (held by the Fourth...