MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 30th of March, 1871, the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act to provide for the funding and payment of the public debt, by which two-thirds of the amount due on old bonds might be funded in new bonds, with interest coupons attached "receivable at and after maturity for all taxes, debts, dues, and demands due the State." Under this act many bonds were put out with coupons which expressed on their...
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