Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — Illegal Advertisements. [ARTICLE]

Illegal Advertisements.

Mr. Brooks, Chief of the Secret Service Division offthe Treasury Deportment, has received notification that persons in the West are canvassing the various States for the sale of advertising cards which are made to represent treasury notes. The canvassers sell these imitation bank-notes to one dealer in each town and enter into a written contract to give the exclusive right to use them for advertising purposes. This is in direct violation of Sec. 8,708 of the Revised Statutes, and the treasury officials are determined to hunt down the guilty parties. The latest complaints come from Cairo, HL, and Goldsboro, N. C. The penalty is SIOO for each note distributed. telegram.