The Railway Companies Mortgage Transfer (Scotland) Act 1861
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, (Chapter Fifty-nine,) it is provided that "where on the original making and issuing of any Bond or Mortgage given by Public Companies under the Provisions of Acts of Parliament, as Securities for Money which such Companies are by the said Acts expressly empowered or authorized to borrow, and before any Transfer or Assignment thereof, such Bond or Mortgage shall be stamped with a...