Tyne Improvement Commission Act 1875
WHEREAS by the River Tyne Improvement Act, 1850, (in this Act called the Tyne Act of 1850,) a body of Commissioners was formed for the improvement and conservancy of the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (therein defined to extend from Hedwin Streams above the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Spar Hawke in the Sea) and of the River Tyne:

And whereas the said Commission is now composed of eighteen members, as follows; (that is to say,) fourteen members appointed by the councils of the four borough...