An Act for amalgamating the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company with the North-eastern Railway Company, and for vesting the Undertaking of the former Company in that of the latter; and for other Purposes.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in a Session of Parliament held in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth (2 William IV. Chapter 67.), the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company were incorporated for making and maintaining Wet Docks in the Port of Hartlepool, and a Railway therefrom into the Township of Moorsley, with certain Branches, all in the County of Durham, and for other Purposes in such Act mentioned: And whereas by an Act passed in a Session of Parliament held...