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United States of America W>T B -1 -7 -7
State of Tennessee

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Know all men by there presents that there
is due from the State of Tennessee to the
East Tennessee & to Georgia Rail Road company
or Bearer, one thousand dollars, lawful mo-
ney of the united states, with interest at the
rate of six per centums per annum, payable
half yearly on the first of January & July in
each year, in the city of New York, on the
presentation to surrender of the [indecipherable] hereto
annexed. The principal is reimbursable upon
the presentation of this land, in said city, at
the expiration of forty years from the state
hereaf. For the performance of all which the
faith of the State of Tennessee is irrevocably
pledged, as these obligations are created
by nature? in pursuance of and under the authority of an act
of the General Assembly of said state, entitled
"an act to charter Owen to Winstead Turnpike
company & for other purposes" passed January
30^th 1850, all the pertinent sections of which
[act??] are hereto appended

In testimony whereof I William
Trousdale Governor of said
State have hereunto set my
hand and caused it thus this to
be countersigned by the Secretary
of said State & the Great Seal
of said State to be affixed
at Nashville this first day
of July 1850

By the Governor
Secretary of State