Thames Haven Dock Company's Act 1856
WHEREAS by an Act (Local) of the Session of the Sixth and Seventh Years of William the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and eight, the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company (in this Act called the Company) were incorporated, and were authorized to make a Railway from Romford in the County of Essex to Shell Haven (to be thenceforth called Thames Haven) in that County, and a Tide Dock or Basin at Thames Haven, and other Works, and to purchase Lands for that Purpose, and they were authorized (by Sect...