PUBLIC ACTS

OF

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF TENNESSEE,

Passed by the Third Session of the 36th General Assembly,
Which was begun and held at Nashville, on Monday, the
Fifth day of December, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

CHAPTER I.

AN ACT to Protect the Interest of the State by Reason of the Issuance of bonds of the State to the Mineral Home Railroad Company.

WHEREAS, on the 2nd day of October, 1869, the Governor of the State issued one hundred bonds of the State Preamble. to the President of the Mineral Home Railroad Company; and

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained as to whether said bonds were legally issued or not, and whether or not the State is bound for the payment of said bonds, and the interest accruing thereon; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That the payment of said bonds, or coupons clipped from said bonds, be, and the same are Payment suspended. hereby, for the present, suspended, until it shall be decided by a court having competent jurisdiction as to the obligation of the State arising from the issuance of said bonds.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Comptroller of Comptr'lr nor the Treasury, and the Treasurer of the State, are hereby Treas'r to pay expressly prohibited from paying either of said bonds or the or receive.