The government also authorized, in addition to the coinage of silver, the issuance of paper money in two, five, and ten peso notes.

The Minnesotian carried at the head of its columns the words "Official Paper of the City," and it was feared that its malignant attacks upon the state officials, denouncing the issuance of the bonds as fraudulent and illegal, would be construed abroad as reflecting the sentiment of the majority of the people in the the community in which it was printed, and would have a bad effect in the East when the time came to negotiate the bonds.

It prevents the issuance of general warrants.