Newport (Monmouthshire) Corporation Act 1855
WHEREAS there is near the Town of Newport in Monmouthshire a Meadow or Piece of Marsh Land containing about Forty-four Acres, and known as Newport Marshes, bounded by the Turnpike Road from Newport to Pontypool, by the River Usk and by Crindau Pill, which Land is vested in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Newport, but the Profits thereof are divisible among the resident Freemen of the said Borough who were such Freemen on the Ninth Day of September in the Year One thousand...