Southampton Docks Act 1874
WHEREAS by "The Southampton Docks Act, 1871" (in this Act called the "recited Act") the provisions of the former Acts relating to the Southampton Dock Company (in this Act called "the Company") were consolidated and amended, and those Acts were repealed with the exception of the sections set forth in the schedule to the reciting Act, and the Company were continued incorporated by their present name, and the powers of the Company to construct certain works were also continued:

And whereas by ...