Manchester Corporation Act 1882
WHEREAS the establishment in the city of Manchester and under the proprietorship of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the said city (in this Act called the Corporation) and chief management of the council of the said city of an institution for the advancement of art with in connexion therewith an art gallery would be for the public benefit of the inhabitants of that city And whereas there is already established in the said city under a deed of settlement dated the 26th day of December 1832 a...