Tyne Improvement Act 1870
WHEREAS by "The River Tyne Improvement Act, 1850," after reciting that the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne extended from Hedwin Streams above the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Spar Hawke in the sea, and that the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough were the conservators of the port, and held the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, together with the port, in fee farm under the Crown: and further reciting that, by virtue of prescription and various charters and the Acts therein recited, or so...