Excerpt from Mortgage Deed of Trust, Dated June 1, 1911: Securing an Issue of First and General Mortgage Five Per Cent Gold Bonds, Due January 1, 1928

Dollars in gold coin Of the United States Of America Of the present standard Of weight and fineness at the Office Of Illinois Trust Savings Bank, Trustee, as hereinafter set forth, or its successor in said trust (hereinafter inclusively referred to as Illinois Trust Savings Bank) in Chicago, Illinois, on January 1, 1928 (or earlier at the Option Of the Obligor as hereinafter provided), with interest on said sum from the first day Of January or the first day Of July, as the case may be, next preceding the date Of the certification hereof, or from such date Of certification if it be a first day Of January or a first day Of July, at the rate Of five (5) per centum per annum, payable semi-annually in like gold coin on the first days Of January and July Of each year at the Office Of Illinois Trust Savings Bank, or, at the option Of the holder, at the Office Of Chase National Bank, in New York, New York, or its successor, but the first instal ment Of interest hereon Shall not be due before January 1, 1912. Principal and interest Of this bond are payable with out deduction for any present or future tax or taxes.

This bond is one Of a series Of bonds aggregating threemillion five hundred thousand dollars in amount, dated June 1, 1911, maturing January 1, 1928, issued and to be issued by Bloomington and Normal Rail way and Light Company, bearing interest at the rate Of five (5) per centum per annum, and being as far as may be Of like tenor and effect. Bonds Of said series may be in the form Of coupon bonds Of the denomination Of one thousand dollars each, numbered consecutively from one (1) to three thousand five hundred in elusive, or in the form Of registered bonds without coupons Of the denominations Of one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and Of such other multiples Of one thousand dollars as Shall be prescribed by Bloomington and Normal Railway and Light Company, numbered consecutively and issued in lieu Of or in exchange for such coupon bonds, each such registered bond without coupons having endorsed thereon the number or numbers Of the coupon bond or coupon bonds in lieu Of or in exchange for which it is issued.

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