North London Railway Act, 1897
WHEREAS it is expedient that the North London Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") should be empowered to improve the access to the Poplar Dock or Basin (in this Act called "the Poplar Dock") now held by the Company on lease from the London and India Docks Joint Committee and the East and West India Dock Company (in this Act respectively referred to as "the joint committee" and "the dock company") and to execute the works and exercise the powers herein-after described or mention...