Jonesboro, TN
1869
Original price was: $125.00.$65.00Current price is: $65.00.
The 2¢ postage stamp of 1869 illegally/improperly used to pay the 2¢ federal receipt tax on a payment to a school teacher. The receipt reads:
Jonesboro, Tenn May 21st 1869
Received from L.F. Drake Supt. [??] Washington Co.
Eighty nine dollars & seventy cts for teaching 5
mo. pub School in Sub Dist No 7 in Civil district No. 2
in 1868 – 1869; it being money for 1867.
A fabulous example of illegal/improper usage.