EXHIBIT A.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
STATE OF INDIANA.
$1,000. No. 216.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT LOAN.
Five Per Cent. Stock.
Under the act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled " An Act to provide for a General System of Internal Improvement in Indiana," approved January 27, 1836, and an act providing for the further construction of the Madison and Lafayette Railroad, approved February 6, 1839:
Know all men by these presents: That there is due from the State of Indiana to the Morris Canal and Banking Company, or bearer, the sum of One Thousand Dollars, bearing an interest of five per centum per annum from the date hereof, the first of which interest is payable the first day of January next, and thereafter semi-annually, on the first days of July and January, at the banking house of the Morris Canal and Banking Company, at Jersey City, or at their agency office in the city of New York, on presentation and delivery of the dividend warrants severally subjoined, until payment of the principal sum, which principal sum being stock created in pursuance of the act of the General Assembly aforesaid, is payable in twenty-five years from the date hereof, and for the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal aforesaid, at either of the places aforesaid, the faith of the State of Indiana is irrevocably pledged.
Witness our hands at Indianapolis, this first day of July, 1839.
MILTON STAPP,
LUCIUS H. SCOTT,
Commissioners.
Internal Improvement Loan under the Act of January 27, 1836, Morris Canal and Banking Company, at Jersey City, or in the City of New York, pay to the bearer Twenty-five Dollars, being half a year's interest on bond No. 216, due July 1, 1841.
M. STAPP.
