It is insisted by the plaintiff in error that there was express legislative authority for the issue of these bonds. The first statute relied on is the act of the legislature of Tennessee, approved January 23, 1871, chapter 50 of the acts of 1870-71, entitled "An Act to Enforce Article 2, Section 29, of the Constitution, to Authorize the several...
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