The Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company's Act, 1877
WHEREAS by "The Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Act, 1863," (in this Act called "the Act of 1863,") the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company, (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated and authorised to make a pier in the parish of Portbury, in the county of Somerset, and a railway from that pier to the Bristol and Exeter Railway at Bedminster, and a branch railway to Portishead, and for the purposes aforesaid to raise the sum of two hundred thousand pounds by sha...