Metropolitan and District Railways (City Lines and Extensions) Act 1881
WHEREAS by the Metropolitan and District Railways (City Lines and Extensions) Act 1879 (in this Act called "the Act of 1879") the Metropolitan Railway Company and the Metropolitan District Railway Company (in this Act respectively called "the Metropolitan Company" and "the District Company" and collectively "the two Companies") were authorised to make the railways and works therein described and the time for the compulsory purchase of land was limited to two years and for the completion of th...