Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection is a single printed broadside. Tennessee Comptroller 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...