The Portsmouth Street Tramways Act, 1870
WHEREAS the laying down of the street tramways in the borough of Portsmouth herein-after particularly described (to be worked by animal power only, and constructed so as not to impede or injure the ordinary traffic of the streets,) would be of great local and public advantage: And whereas it is expedient that the persons herein-after named, with others, should be incorporated into a Company, and should be empowered to lay down and maintain the several street tramways in this Act particularly ...