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Title	Republic of Texas $214.00 (two hundred fourteen dollars) audited draft
County of Origin	Travis County
Town of Issue	Austin
Currency Type	Audited Draft
Handwritten Value	$214.00
Bank Issuer	Republic of Texas
Imprint	Intelligencer Office, Houston.
Date Issued	29th Jany. 1840.
Decade	1840-1849
Notes	This audited draft was issued in Austin by the Republic of Texas. Austin was the capitol of the Republic from January 19, 1840, until September 1842 and from June 1845 to the present. An elaborate decorative pattern borders the left edge of the note; a line borders the top and bottom edges. The abbreviation ''No.'' is printed towards the upper-left corner of the note; the number ''4330'' is handwritten adjacent to it. A dollar sign is printed towards the upper-right corner of the note; the amount ''214.00'' is handwritten adjacent to it. The note is payable to Preston Conlee for ''... payment of the Civil Contgt. [sic] for the year 1840. Exp. for Supreme Court.'' The date is handwritten. Before the date, the word ''Houston'' has a line drawn through it, and the word ''Austin'' is written adjacent to it. The word ''Cancelled'' is written vertically across the face of the note. It is signed on the recto by James B. Shaw, acting Comptroller, and Musgrove Evans, Second Auditor. It is signed on the verso by Preston Conlee. Shaw was comptroller from 1839-1859, was often acting secretary of the Treasury during Sam Houston's second administration, and represented Texas in Washington D.C. in 1850 to collect $5,000,000.00 from the government as payment from the Compromise of 1850 and the sale by Texas of parts of News Mexico and Colorado (TSHA). Evans was the second auditor of the Republic of Texas under Mirabeau B. Lamar's administration (1858 Texas Almanac) and later a judge (Texas State Gazette). Conlee, a Tennessee native, fought in the Texas Revolution and served as Bastrop County sheriff for a decade (A History of Texas and Texans, Volume 4, by Francis White Johnson). The phrase ''Austin 20B'' is written in pencil on the verso, although it is not original to the note.
Rarity	R.7
Signatures	Recto: James B Shaw actg Comptroller.; Musgrove Evans 2nd Auditor. Verso: Preston Conlee
Dimensions	8 x 16 cm.
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Process	Digitization process: scanned as 1200 ppi, 16-bits per channel, RGB.tif; derivative created from recto and verso and resized as 3000 pixels on the long edge, 8-bits per channel RGB.jpg.
Upload File Name	TravisAustin0000042_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	0000042r.tif; 0000042v.tif
Scan Path Number	Travis\Austin\0000042r
Rowe Catalog Number	20.03
Digital Collection	Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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