The Great Western Railway (Steam Vessels) Act, 1871
WHEREAS the Great Western Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") are possessed of railways extending to Milford Haven and Weymouth, and various other ports and places in England and Wales; and it is expedient that they should be empowered to provide and use steam and other vessels between the ports and places in this Act mentioned, but the object aforesaid cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be i...