Newport (Monmouthshire) Docks Act 1854
WHEREAS by the Local and Personal Act 5 and 6 William IV., Chapter 75, certain Persons were incorporated by the Name of "The Newport Dock Company" (herein-after called "the Company"), and were empowered to make and maintain a Dock, with Roads, Railways, or Tramroads, Quays, Aqueducts, Warehouses, and other Works and Conveniences, and to raise a Capital of Fifty thousand Pounds, to be divided into Five hundred Shares of One hundred Pounds each, and to raise by Mortgage of the said Undertaking ...