Manchester Improvement Act 1871
WHEREAS it is expedient that the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Manchester in the county of Lancaster, in this Act called "the corporation," should be empowered to acquire, for general improvement purposes or other purposes of the corporation, certain lands, houses, and buildings situate and being in the township of Chorlton-upon-Medlock in the parish of Manchester in the county of Lancaster:
And whereas plans of the lands which the corporation may acquire under this Act, and a ...