Portishead Docks Act, 1878
WHEREAS by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Act, 1863, the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company, (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated and authorised to make a pier in the parish of Portbury in the county of Somerset, and a railway from that pier to the Bristol and Exeter Railway in Bedminster in that county, and a branch railway to Portishead, and for those purposes to raise a share capital of two hundred thousand pounds, and to borrow sixty-six thousand ...