The Tyne Coal Dues Act, 1872
WHEREAS by "The River Tyne Improvement Act, 1850," after reciting, amongst other things, that the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne extended from Hedwin Streams above the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Spar Hawke in the sea, and that the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough were the conservators of the port, and held the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, together with the port, in fee farm under the Crown; and further reciting that the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, by virtue of prescriptio...