Excerpt from First Consolidated Mortgage: Norfolk and Western Railway Company to the Mercantile Trust Company, Trustee; Dated October 22d, 1896 First Mortgage, whereby it conveyed to The Mercantile Trust Company, as Trustee, the railroad, franchises and property in said mortgage described, to secure a certain issue Ofibonds Of said Railroad Company, called its Mary land and Washington Division First Mortgage Bonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.