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Beautiful $1000 Revenue Bond Certificate from the State of New York for Payment of Bounties to Volunteers issued in 1865. This historic document was printed by the National Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman sitting with an eagle perched on her hand. This item is hand signed by the State Comptroller, Lucius Robinson and is countersigned. This historic document is over 148 years old. Ink and cut cancellations. Certificate Vignette Payment of bounties were made during the Civil War The to encourage enlistments in the armed forces. Lucius Robinson (November 4, 1810, Windham, Greene County, New York - March 23, 1891, Elmira, Chemung County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Governor of New York from 1877 to 1879. He graduated from Delaware Academy in Delhi, New York. Afterwards he studied law in the offices of Erastus Root and Amasa J. Parker, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice in Catskill, N.Y. He was District Attorney of Greene County from 1837 to 1840. Then he removed to New York City and became a member of Tammany Hall. He joined the Republican Party when it was founded, and representing this party was a member from Chemung County of the New York State Assembly in 1860 and 1861. He was New York State Comptroller from 1862 to 1865. In 1861, he was elected on the Union ticket nominated by Republicans and War Democrats. In 1863 he was defeated for re-nomination at the Union state convention, but the nominated candidadte refused to run, and the Republican State Committee put Robinson back on the ticket, and he was re-elected. After the war he joined the Democratic Party again, and was re-nominated for Comptroller on the Democratic ticket, but this time was defeated by the Republican candidate Thomas Hillhouse. After his defeat he resumed the practice of law. In 1871-72 he was a member of the New York State Constitutional Commission. He was a director of the

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