{
  "name": "Pacific Railroad act of 1862: the bond schedule",
  "desc": "The bond schedule of the 1862 act, one zone or term per row, with the act's own wording; dollar figures are this site's conversion of the bond counts at 1,000 dollars a bond, with the formula given.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Treaties & Tradeoffs",
  "url": "https://treatiesandtradeoffs.com/logistics/transcontinental-railroad/",
  "from": [
    "Act of 1 July 1862, 12 Stat. 489, in The Union Pacific Railroad: Acts of Congress Relating Thereto (Boston, 1874)",
    "Act of 2 July 1864, 13 Stat. 356, same compilation"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Treaties & Tradeoffs from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Act of 1 July 1862 (12 Stat. 489), read in The Union Pacific Railroad: Acts of Congress Relating Thereto (Boston, 1874), accessed 2026-11-02, US federal law, public domain",
    "Act of 2 July 1864 (13 Stat. 356), same compilation, accessed 2026-11-02, US federal law, public domain"
  ]
}