Metropolitan Open Spaces Act 1877
WHEREAS it is expedient to afford facilities for making available the open spaces in and near the metropolis for the use of the inhabitants for exercise and recreation, and to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to acquire the control and management of such open spaces for such purposes: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the s...