Wear Navigation and Sunderland Dock Act 1919
WHEREAS the River Wear Commissioners (in this Act referred to as "the Commissioners") were incorporated by the Wear Navigation and Sunderland Dock Act 1859 and are by virtue of that Act and subsequent Acts authorised to exercise certain powers for the improvement and conservancy of the River Wear and the port of Sunderland in the county of Durham and are the owners of certain docks quays wharves railways works lands and property and are empowered to exercise with reference to the said river a...