Chapter CCLVII. supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the Construction of its Road, and for other Purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
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CHAP. CCLVII.— An Act supplemental to an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the Construction of its Road, and for other Purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That1871, ch. 122.Vol. xvi. p. 573.Face value of bonds hereafter issued by the Texas and Pacific R. R. Co. may be in gold or lawful money.Former mortgages legalized, if, &c. the face value of all bonds hereafter issued by the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, under the provisions of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall, at the option of the company, be either in gold, or other lawful money of the United States, bearing interest, at like option of the company, either in gold or other lawful money of the United States; and any mortgage heretofore executed by said company, securing bonds payable in any lawful money of the United States other thau gold, and the bonds recited therein, and to secure which, said mortgage was given, are hereby legalized, and said mortgage and bonds shall have the same effect as though they had been authorized by the act to which this is a supplement. *Provided,* That in all other respects the requirements of that law in regard to such mortgage and bonds have been fully complied with Approved, March 3, 1873.