NP, NOTP 1/17A/1862

From the New Orleans Times Picayune
 
January 17, 1862
 
The East{ern} Texas Railroad
   The State Gazette says:
   A bill granting relief to the East Texas Railroad, has passes both houses. It allows them to draw the $6000 per mile loan on the completion of five miles, and gives them $7500 in land scrip at 50 cents per acre, in addition to the sixteen sections per mile allowed by the general law, being to make up a depreciation of 25 per cent, on $30,000 of United States bonds which they claim are now depreciated.

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