The Birmingham and Staffordshire Tramways Act, 1870
WHEREAS the laying down of tramways in certain streets and roads in the parishes of Handsworth, West Bromwich, and Tipton in the county of Stafford, to be worked by animal power only, and constructed so as not to impede or injure the ordinary traffic, would be of great local and public advantage:
And whereas it is expedient that the persons herein-after named, with others, should be incorporated into a company, and empowered to lay down and maintain the several tramways in this Act particular...