Eastern Bengal Railway Act 1857
WHEREAS several Persons lately associated themselves together for promoting the Establishment of a Company (to be called the Eastern Bengal Railway Company) for making and maintaining a Railway (to be called the Eastern Bengal Railway) from Calcutta on the Left Bank of the Hooghly, through the Districts of Kishnaghur, Jessore, and Pubna, to the Right Bank of the Ganges at Kooshtoe, and ultimately to the City of Dacca, and with Power to raise in the first instance for the Purposes of the Railw...