Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Act 1874
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for making and maintaining a navigable canal from, or from near to, the town of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, to communicate with the river Severn, near to the city of Worcester," the Company of Proprietors of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Navigation (herein-after called the Worcester Company) were incorporated for the purpose of making and maintaining the canal ...