An Act to extend the Time for completing the Tay Bridge and Newport Railways, to authorise the North British Railway Company to purchase additional Station Lands, to lay down pipes for distillery dreg, &c., to abandon part of their Charleston Branch, to complete the Amalgamation of the Devon Valley Railway, to contribute a further Sum to the Harbour Works at Burntisland, to establish a Superannuation Fund; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS by "The North British Railway (Tay Bridge and Railways) Act, 1870," (in this Act called "the Tay Bridge Act, 1870,") the North British Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") were authorised to make a bridge and railway over the river Tay and certain railways in connexion therewith, and with their system, and the time for the completion of the works thereby authorised was limited to five years from the passing of the said Act:
And whereas the bridge and works authorised by ...