Great Northern Railway Act 1905
WHEREAS by virtue of a lease made under the powers of the Great Northern Railway Act 1846 between the company of proprietors of the Witham Navigation of the one part and the Great Northern Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") of the other part and bearing date the twenty-second day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty the Company are the lessees of the said navigation which includes the River Witham for a term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years from the twenty-eigh...