Great Western Railway (Hereford and Gloucester Canal Vesting) Act 1870
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, entitled "An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the City of Hereford to the City of Gloucester, with a collateral Cut from the same to the Town of Newent in the County of Gloucester," a company (in this Act called "the Canal Company") was incorporated, by the name and style of the Company of Proprietors of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation, with power to...