Telegraph Act 1873
WHEREAS by the Telegraph Act, 1869, and the Telegraph Money Act, 1871, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in this Act referred to as the Treasury were authorised to raise for the purposes of the said Acts any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole eight million pounds: And whereas the purposes of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870, were the purchasing, working, maintaining, and extending telegraphs: And whereas by the nineteenth section of the Telegraph Act, 1869, after declar...