Chard Railway Act 1853
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for making a navigable Canal from the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal in the Parish of Creech Saint Michael in the County of Somerset, and terminating in the Parish of Chard in the same County, with a collateral Cut, therein described, whereby a Company was incorporated under the Name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Chard Canal Navigation," which Act was amended by an Act passed in the T...