Scope and ContentSpecimen bond: Morris & Essex Rail Road Co., [State of New Jersey] Seven Per Cent Convertible Bond. Payable January 1st, 1900. $1000. Interest payable First of January and First of July. Convertible Until January 1st, 1874. Unissued 1869 bond; un-numbered (presumably printed in December of 1868.) Printed in black and green on wove paper (no watermark), 17" wide x 22" high, folded to 3-3/4" wide x 9-1/2" high. All coupons present. "This Bond is one of a series of Three Thousand of the like tenor and date, each for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, in the aggregate amounting to THREE MILLION DOLLARS, and numbered consecutively from "One" to "Three Thousand" inclusively." Interest was to be paid at the "Office of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail Road Company, in the City of New York." Bondholder had the option to convert its value to capital stock by 1874. Issuance date was printed as "second day of January, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-nine." This financial move was apparently one of the earliest actions taken by the D.L. & W. upon taking control (as leaseholder) of the Morris & Essex. See notes.