Belfast Harbour Commissioners Act, 1871
WHEREAS by the Belfast Harbour Act, 1847, the Belfast Harbour Commissioners (in this Act called "the Commissioners") were incorporated, with power to execute certain works, and for that purpose to borrow money, acquire lands, and to demand and exact reasonable rents or rates from persons using or occupying sheds, warehouses, storehouses, cranes, weighing machines, buildings, and other works then erected or thereafter to be erected for the accommodation of the trade of Belfast Harbour:

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