The Shotts Iron Company's Act, 1877
WHEREAS by "The Shotts Iron Company's Act, 1871," herein-after referred to as the Act of 1871, the Shotts Iron Company (in this Act referred to as the Company) were incorporated, and were empowered, among other things, by agreement to purchase, acquire in fee, and take on lease lands and mineral fields in addition to those by that Act vested in them for the purposes of their undertaking, and also to work and manufacture iron ore, ironstone, shale, coal, coke, limestone, fireclay, and other mi...