The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 57, July 1953 - April, 1954 Page: 179
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Texas Money
generally under three different issues, all typeset and ranging
from one to one hundred dollars. They were printed for both
civil and military purposes and may easily be identified by the
color of the ink used for the signature of the registrar, being red
for civil and blue for military duties.
The first warrants were hurried typeset affairs printed in black
on white paper in several denominations, of which the writer
has seen only the printed one, five, and ten dollar values and an
odd filled-in form for $21.40.
The second issue, under act of January 14, 1862, is commonly
known as the Milk Maid Set. For both civil and military use,
the one dollar note is printed in black and orange on white
paper with a Milk Maid at the left end. The $2.50 value is
printed in black, on white paper; for civil use, "Treasury War-
rant" is printed in red on the reverse side and for military use,
in blue. The $5.00 value is printed in black and green on a
bluish paper for civil use and black and green on white paper
for military use. It has a picture of Washington at the left end.
The ten dollar value is printed in black and red on white paper
for both civil and military with a sailing vessel at the left end.
The twenty dollar value was printed the same as the ten dollar
black and red on white paper, with a picture of Ceres at the left
and a ship in the right upper corner. This is the largest denomi-
nation issued. For odd amounts a special form was used. For civil
use, black and blue on white paper was used; a beehive was
printed in the upper right corner. For military use, the bill was in
black and green on white, with Ceres seated on agricultural in-
struments in the upper center and an Indian maiden at the left
end. Occasionally when one form ran out, the other was used by
simply writing military over civil or civil over military.
Then came the final set of warrants; the writer has no check
list of values. The ones he has are the one, three, five, ten, twenty,
fifty, and one hundred dollars; this may constitute a complete
set. All are printed in black and green on white paper, for both
civil and military use, except the fifty and one hundred dollar
values, the printing in this case being black on the face and green
on the reverse. One fifty-dollar warrant for civil service is printed
in black and green on a yellow background.
There were many county and town warrants, besides those179
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 57, July 1953 - April, 1954, periodical, 1954; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101152/m1/227/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.