The Stockton and Darlington Railway Act, 1854
WHEREAS by the (Local) Act of the First and Second of George the Fourth, Chap. 44, the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company were incorporated, and were authorized to raise a Share Capital of Eighty-two thousand Pounds in Eight hundred and twenty Shares of One hundred Pounds each, and to raise Twenty thousand Pounds by borrowing: And whereas the (Local) Act of the Fourth of George the Fourth, Chap. 33, was passed relating to that Company: And whereas by the (Local) Act of the Fifth of Georg...