Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Act, 1879
WHEREAS it will contribute to public and local convenience that the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company (who are herein-after referred to as "the Company") should be enabled to close a portion of the Monmouthshire Canal within the borough of Newport, and to appropriate and use for the purposes of their railways and other works the site of the said portion of the canal so closed:

And whereas plans showing the portion of the canal so intended to be closed and appropriated under the powers ...